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CVE Scanning and Guided Remediation with OSV Scanner

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Figure 1. OSV Scanner

Security is a critical aspect of software development, and staying ahead of vulnerabilities is essential for us application developers. Google’s OSV Scanner is a powerful tool that helps detect vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies.

This article will guide us through setting up and using OSV Scanner to secure our projects, scan for invalid licenses, scan OCI images and finally how to fix findings via guided remediation.

Prettier Code Formatter Configuration

Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Goals

Setup Prettier for different environments / IDEs
Run Prettier via git hooks

Install Prettier

Install via npm

npm install --save-dev --save-exact prettier

Add empty configuration file

echo {}> .prettierrc.json

Create Prettier ignore file .prettierignore:

# Ignore artifacts:
build
coverage

Format all project files with Prettier:

npx prettier --write .

Git Hooks

Adding the following lines to the project’s package-json makes ESLint and Prettier run before each commit:

{
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "lint-staged"
    }
  },
  "lint-staged": {
    "**/*": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown"
  }
}

Quick Mobile Application Prototyping with Ionic Creator

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0100

When it comes to the field of hybrid mobile application development, Ionic and its tool-stack is often an attractive choice.

Now there is Ionic Creator to speed up the development process offering an in-browser editor to create user interfaces via drag and drop and supporting basic templates for mobile applications like tabbed layouts etc.

In addition, a project created with this tool may be downloaded and started with easy and that’s what I’d like to show in the following short example.

Creating and Providing HipChat Integrations with Atlassian Connect, Nodejs and Express

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0200

HipChat is Atlassian’s alternative to Slack and its solution to team collaboration chats. Atlassian Connect offers developer tools to bootstrap applications, connect to Atlassian’s cloud products with easy and in combination with HipChat’s REST APIs allows us to write integrations for such a chat server in no time.

In the following tutorial I’d like to show how to write an integration within a few steps using Atlassian Connect, Node.js and Express and how to connect the integration to a HipChat server.

Creating a hybrid mobile Application with Ionic, Cordova and AngularJS

Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200

Nowadays in the realm of hybrid mobile application development there is a variety of available frameworks worth having a look at.

In the following tutorial I’d like to demonstrate the development life-cycle for a complete mobile application using Ionic, Cordova and AngularJS (and others) covering every step from the initial project setup, creating Angular Controllers, Directives, adding Cordova Plug-Ins, running and testing the application in the browser and emulator up to finally running the application on an Android device and assembling files for a release.

JavaScript Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Creating a Nodejs Module

1) Create a package.json using npm init

$ npm init

This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file. It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sane defaults.

See npm help json for definitive documentation on these fields and exactly what they do.

Use npm install <pkg> --save afterwards to install a package and save it as a dependency in the package.json file.