Versioning

Back-end developers quite often find themselves thinking about making breaking changes to their API. A change that could break the client application consuming the API. We quite often forget how easy it is to cause havoc for our clients by breaking the contract we agreed between front-end and back-end. All sorts of unintentional consequences could arise from this. We recently had a similar conversation at my workplace about how we wanted to deal with the release of a feature we had been working on in the last sprint. ...

Featured image from https://devopedia.org/semantic-versioning When I started web development a long time ago, I heard about Semver (semantic versioning) as if it was some complicated jargon. But gradually I learned what it was and understood how relevant it was in web development, especially, when you rely on packages from a global package repository. I recently got asked by one my junior devs to explain it. I couldn’t explain it elegantly. So I decided to write a post. ...

In my previous post we went through branching in git and commands that can be used to get changes from one branch to another. Oops! Let us explore some commands that will prove useful when we end up in tricky situations with Git. Reset Reset helps you undo a commit. You know those times when you commit too soon. Git offers you the following levels of control to when you attempt a reset. ...

Featured Image: “Forest” by fear-sAs is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 In my previous post we looked at some basic git commands. Let us delve a little deeper into branches. Git Branch A branch in git is really just a pointer to a commit HEAD Head points to the current branch which in turn points to the latest commit in a branch. ...

Featured Image: please let me hold your hand by pippimuckel is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 In the previous post we went through some concepts and terminology in git. Some basic git commands Create a repository Let us take a look at how we can create a local repository. git init What does it do? Initialises a repository for a project Creates a .git folder for your repository Used by Git to track changes that happen in that repository folder Git stores repository specific settings to that folder It tracks the latest change in a branch in that folder Also stores configuration for the repository in there A new repository, needs some configuration. Let us go ahead and configure it. ...

Featured Image “Essentials” by all black long johns is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In my last post, I introduced you to Git. We talked about its history briefly and how useful it is. In this one, let us explore some key terminology and concepts in Git. That way we have a common language to talk about Git. Remote This is what we generally call the copy of the repository that is maintained somewhere on the server. ...

Background When I joined the small company that I currently work for, I was suprised at how little some of my coworkers knew about Git. The fact is, there was no reason to be suprised. I had taken my exposure with Git for granted due to the fact that I had been using it for a couple of years before I joined the firm. So as a good citizen, I prepared a little workshop to help others learn. ...