Brian De Sousa

  • https://briandesousa.net/ Geek. Dad. Husband. Developer. Traveler.

     



6 Stories by Brian De Sousa

React Hooks with Firebase Firestore

It's amazing how fast you can set up a web app with data persistence when you couple Firestore with React Hooks.
March 11, 2020 6 9 min read

CI/CD tools compared: CircleCI and Travis CI vs. major CSPs

How do purpose-driven CI/CD tools like CircleCI and Travis CI stack up against offerings from the major cloud services providers?
December 11, 2019 0 14 min read

Running a Flutter web app and API on Node.js

We add web support to an existing Flutter app and run it on a Node.js server alongside a simple API.
October 23, 2019 3 6 min read

Working with Node.js on Hyper-V and WSL2

A comparison of Hyper-V virtual machines and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WLS2) for Node.js developers using an instance of Ubuntu 19.
September 11, 2019 0 9 min read

ES modules in Node.js 12, from experimental to release

Node 12 moves us one step closer to full support for ES modules.
July 22, 2019 5 5 min read

Switching between Node versions during development

Learn how NVM and the n Node version manager can help you easily switch between Node versions during development.
July 3, 2019 3 5 min read