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Oct 9, 2019

devDependencies are not installing with npm

You’re probably here because your using either yarn install or npm install and your devDependencies are not installing.

Aug 17, 2019

Convert a GitHub Action to a CircleCI Orb

We jumped on the GitHub Action train early. It’s a really exciting step forward for GitHub, and we anxiously await their release. As soon as I was granted beta access I began experimenting and saw they would be able to ease the onboarding process for packtracker users. It specifically prevents our users from having to modify their own project configuration,...

Aug 15, 2019

Single Page App or Multi App Page?

Over the past few years we’ve seen an real surge in the use of single page application architecture. Moving away from traditional web application workflows of requests that render a page on the server, responding by sending it down to the browser. This move has been driven by a renaissance in front end development practices. Over the past 10 years...

Aug 8, 2019

Simple vendor splitting with webpack 4

We want a shared vendor asset that contains all imported npm packages once they are used more than once. If a npm package is only used in a single entry point, leave it to be included in that asset.