State manipulation with ReactJS
React’s documentation tells us not to manipulate state of components directly, and that we should use setState() to handle any changes. This has two big “gotchas!” that I encountered. 1) […]
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Deep structure checking with Lodash / Underscore
If you want to check for a nested property in a complex object, you can do it in a single call with lodash / underscore. Example object: parent: { child1: […]
Enabling WebPack source maps
To enable source maps for webpack in gulp, add the attribute: config.devtool = ‘source-map’ into the webpack config file. This will give accurate line numbers for javascript errors from the […]
ATOM Editor – Packages I’ve found useful
This is a list of ATOM packages I’ve found useful. https://atom.io/packages/atom-beautify https://atom.io/packages/minimap https://atom.io/packages/multiline-tab https://atom.io/packages/highlight-selected https://atom.io/packages/highlight-line https://atom.io/packages/gulp-control https://atom.io/packages/svn
Merging parameter definition for path with multiple actions
If you have multiple actions in a single swagger path, you can define the parameters at the top of the definition for that path, without having to repeat it in […]
Filtering complex objects with Lodash / Underscore
I was trying to filter a large array of objects by some nested key values in a separate array of objects. I had a few ideas from my old-school tried-and-true […]
Enable themes install without FTP or SSH
Edit the wp-config.php file and add: define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’) Changing the owner will stop the prompt, but will sometimes break customization and previews. DO NOT do: cd /var/www/html/siteFolder sudo chown -R […]
Unable to install themes directly via web
Make sure that the web server user is the owner for your WordPress installation chown -R www-data:www-data wordpress_folder