Connor Smyth

Hello! My name is Connor Smyth and I'm a Developer at Race Roster. I enjoy solving complex problems that help make people’s lives better and easier. I like always learning about new tools and new ways to work more efficiently. An active member of the dev community through open-source contributions and maintaining my open-source projects. Love to learn and share that knowledge through Lunch and Learns and mentoring.

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@actually_connor/uuid

@actually_connor/uuid is a JavaScript library for generating and working with universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). It provides a ramsey/uuid-like interface to the uuid package that This project adheres to a code of conduct. By participating in this project and its community, you are expected to uphold this code.

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Sails.js Hook Dotenv

Sails JS hook to load environment variables from a .env file using dotenv. Start sails as you normally do (sails lift) and you will be able to access your environment variables using process.env.your-variable-name

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Trivia API

A publicly available trivia API created with Laravel and PHP web scraping. The API is based on jService.io. With a total of 96,221 questions I plan on creating various applications to leverage this API in the future. Try it yourself now!
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Recent Posts

Sailsconf announcement!

April 4, 2022

I am excited to announce that I will be speaking at Sailsconf 2022! Come see my talk on June 23 about shipping Sails with Docker. https://sailsconf.com/

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Creating the Sails.js dotenv hook

March 25, 2022

This article was originally posted on the Sailscasts blog Introduction I created the sails-js-hook-dotenv package to solve a problem I was facing in my development with Sails.js. That problem was the ability to load environment variables (whether through a .env file or system stored variables), which is a staple feature of building 12-factor apps. Understandably, Sails.js does not have this feature ...

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Implementing Interfaces in JavaScript

February 16, 2022

What are interfaces? Object interfaces allow you to create code that specifies which methods a class must implement, without having to define how these methods are implemented. Interfaces share a namespace with classes and traits, so they may not use the same name. In practice, interfaces serve two complementary purposes: To allow developers to create ...

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