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Conditional Activation of an Observable

Only make an observable run based on a ternary matching criteria.

// Third party modules
import { NEVER, of } from 'rxjs';

const evaluateToTrueCriteria = true;

// 'conditional$' will not run 'subscribe' when the ternary
// evaluates to the false branch
const conditional$ = evaluateToTrueCriteria ? of(true) : NEVER;
conditional$.subscribe((res) => console.log(res));

Output file Manipulation

When working with a document format conversion, such as converting over a Markdown file to LaTeX, there will be occasions where you might want to manipulate the output when Pandoc is not able to completely infer the output that is desired.

Scaffolding for Angular and Storybook with Cypress

First, use npx to localize the install of NX (v11.0.20) and Angular CLI (v11.0.20).

# Create a nx workspace
npx create-nx-workspace@latest

Static Site Generator Configuration

Zola is a decent static site generator written in Rust. This post will list some of my impressions and settings I made to get it customized to my liking to emulate the look and feel of my previous blog design.

Generating a new project

After using the init command, empty folders are generated, but it isn't quite clear on what needs to be modified. Running the server on the newly generated project yields a welcome page, but the physical page is not to be found in any folder. To get started quickly, I recommend that you use a theme and then customize it to your needs.

Common Help Information

All NPM and Github repos have README.md as the primary means of communicating the purpose of a specific module or project. In some situations, such as a CLI module, there is almost always a command to list help for the module’s use.

Handle Situation When File Does Not Exist in Directory

Performing a file reading operation to check whether a file exists before operating might cause a race condition as stated in the Nodejs section on fs.stat:

Identify Streams Better when Logging Two or More Streams at a Time

Rxjs provides a means of performing a ‘side effect’ without modifying the observable through the observable chain. The ‘do’ command is good candidate for use when there is a need to log out information when specific operations are performed.