It would be best if you had a way for users to share their thoughts when building a content-centric website. Users may comment on tutorials, videos, or other types of content. A common way of sharing comments is the HTML textarea that provides a multiline input field. Using textareas can …

We at Future Studio use TypeScript on the frontend and backend. The backend uses an ORM and related models to interact with data from the database. The database models define all accessible properties that are available in the serialized JSON. The frontend uses this JSON and we want to derive …

We’re working on the new Future Studio website. We migrated data to MySQL and used TINYINT(1) columns to store boolean values. An ORM reads data from MySQL and we added convenience methods on models to determine whether a given value is true or false. We’re translating the …

We’re working on the new Future Studio website. We’re migrating data from the previously used document database RethinkDB to MySQL. RethinkDB allowed us to store boolean values. MySQL stores boolean values as TINYINT(1). During the data migration from RethinkDB to MySQL we transferred all boolean values to …

We’re working on the next iteration of the Future Studio website. The new website uses MySQL as the database. The database schema uses foreign key relationships between columns in different tables. At some point, we ran into the following issue when truncating the data in a MySQL table: [MySQL] …

Switching to a new Node.js major version requires you to freshly install dependencies. You may receive the following error when forgetting to re-install dependencies: Error: The module '/home/futurestudio/projects/futurestud.io/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node' was compiled against a different Node.js version …

TypeScript has the keyof and typeof keywords allowing you to retrieve related keys and types of a value or type. We used the combination keyof typeof in tutorials here on Future Studio showing you how to get all enum keys and how to use a string as enum key. This …

TypeScript enums are similar to JavaScript objects. They store a named set of constants. Enums can also store a key-value pair. You can access the values with a string-like value. It’s “string-like” because enums are more strict in types and require a specific string value: one of the available …