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3 JavaScript Libraries that changed the way I develop Full-Stack Projects

In the dynamically-evolving (or, if you insist, absurdly inflated) JavaScript library ecosystem, every once in a while I come across a new module, which considerably impacts the way I build my projects as a full-stack developer. I’ve decided to compile a short list of three JavaScript libraries which I have discovered over the last two years that greatly improved my workflow and have become my go-to choice when developing full-stack applications.

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Declaratively bypassing guards in a NestJS endpoint with JWT and RBAC

I recently started using NestJS – a relatively new Node.js backend framework, which puts convention over configuration. One of the concepts introduced by NestJS are guards, which are a context aware alternative to regular Express middleware. In one of my projects, I’ve run into a use case, which well illustrates the advantages of guards vs middleware.