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GitHub has a cool feature called GitHub Pages. It’s basically free web hosting for your repo. Your site is served from branch gh-pages. And the url becomes https://<USER_NAME>.github.io/<REPO_NAME>

When using volumes with Docker Compose, especially with Node.js projects, sometimes vague errors show up, like file permission errors for reading or writing a file. When this happens, it can be helpful to rebuild your Docker Compose stack from scratch to resolve these errors.

Normally, on say a static site, this would be a matter of uploading files to a server then calling it a day. But, Squarespace makes you jump through hoops. So, documenting this here in case I or someone else has to do this again.

Prettier is a popular code formatter, and I especially like it for JS projects. You can add a script to run it with something like npm run prettier, but wouldn’t it be nice if it would run automatically every time you did a git commit? On top of that, say your project is huge with thousands of files, wouldn’t it be nice if prettier only ran on staged (changed) files?

Many projects these days have a dedicated SonarQube stage in their CI/CD pipelines. Yet, sometimes it’s useful to run SonarQube locally to shorten the feedback loop of a) change code, b) run scan, c) view results. SonarQube has 2 main parts: SonarQube Server, which is a server that displays scan results (among other things), and Sonar Scanner, which does the actual scanning.