Command Line

At the time of Yarn’s debut, it brought big advancements to npm’s performance and workflow along with the introduction of lock files. A lot of time has passed since then and with the arrival of a native npm lock file, I was under the impression that more recent npm development had rendered the benefits of Yarn obsolete.

The way we often use Gulp can make our projects brittle and add friction that complicates contribution and on-boarding. Thankfully, this is an avoidable problem with a rock-solid solution that requires minimal effort.

How to reference a forked/patched npm package.

fastly-cli is a command-line interface (CLI) for the Fastly CDN written in node.js.

Despite all advice to the contrary, there are valid use cases for running npm via sudo. We encountered just such a case in our own work, and with it some challenges that made us scratch our heads and dive into man pages.

It's difficult for one tool to handle all of the different demands that developers have for development environments. I think I've finally found the right tool: Drupal VM.

I have been using the same command snippet to import a database using drush for a long time, but it recently broke when switching to an alternative shell. Below is an update to an old classic.

Recently, Ryan blogged about a few CLI utilities that can really help improve your productivity. If I had to add one additional utility to his list, it’d be Vim.

I remember when I viewed the command line as some esoteric art only used by the Wizards of the Back-End. Now, I can’t get enough of it.