Robert HigdonSending an Email with Nodemailer, AWS Lambda, and ServerlessI spent the last few months helping organize an especially heavy project with some new friends called Remembering COVID-19. It’s meant to…3 min read·Oct 30, 2020----
Robert HigdonA front-end journey into XStateIt’s been a while since I picked up a development pattern on the front-end that fundamentally changed the way that work. The last time…4 min read·May 15, 2020----
Robert HigdonGiving control back to your usersI recently had the opportunity to attend An Event Apart, a conference geared toward UX and graphic designers and front-end developers. The…4 min read·Mar 10, 2019----
Robert HigdonMedium-style sticky headerThere are many styles of navigation out on the web right now. One of my personal favorites is the header that remains near the top of the…3 min read·Jan 5, 2017--2--2
Robert HigdonWorking with Google Maps asynchronouslyI was working on a stupid-simple static website for a friend’s new bar this last weekend. There wasn’t much content to work with, so we…2 min read·Nov 7, 2015----
Robert HigdonScrape a site with X-Ray and build a D3 graphI’ve been looking for a reason to tinker with D3 for a while now but I haven’t been able to find a legitimate use case. I figure this hole…6 min read·Aug 28, 2015----
Robert HigdonDecoding package.jsonWhen I first got in to NPM (and Node in general), I took the build process for granted. I wasn’t much concerned with how it worked, just…3 min read·Aug 21, 2015----
Robert HigdonBasic User Authentication in Express with Passport JSI have never had trouble scaffolding basic applications with various frameworks. The one piece that always seemed to throw me off was user…3 min read·Jul 12, 2015--1--1
Robert HigdonRunning MongoDb with NodeJS & ExpressIn my years of development, I’ve spent a lot of time deep in the nitty-gritty of front-end development. Whether it was banging my head on…5 min read·Jul 2, 2015--1--1