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John J Masse

The team focused product leader that emphasizes the importance of habitual learning and leadership through influence and servitude.

📍 New Fairfield, Connecticut https://www.jjmasse.com/

NPM module of the week: webpack-bundle-analyzer

As software folks, we live and die by the performance, or perceived performance, of the stuff we write and publish. One of the many facets of performance is file size. And with the continued onset of new and exciting NPM modules and third party code bits for us to use

Bullet proof your technology stack with GraphQL

It has taken a little time for technology like GraphQL to settle in. I find myself in conversations with folks about the use of GraphQL and whether or not it makes sense to use for their project. Maybe GraphQL is good for you, perhaps it is too soon - but by

NPM module of the week: ESLint-plugin-import

Save yourself some time debugging whether or not you have the correct paths to modules you are importing. I have found myself in a lot of discussion around Javascript standards and style. I have been a long time fan of the airbnb javascript style guide [https://github.com/airbnb/javascript]

How to run a great technical screening (pre-screening)

I have been interviewing recruiting and coaching engineers since early 2013. During that time I have developed frameworks, onboarding strategies, and interviewing workshops that help folks succeed in recruiting. In this post, I wish to share with you one process for the technical screening, commonly known as the phone interview,

GraphQL Schema Design for Returning Lists of Things

How to define a graphQL type and build a schema that will return an instance or collection of the same type. Dummy data const people = [ { "_id": "1", "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Masse" }, { "_id": "2", "

Getting Started with ES2015

Stepping into ES2015 Here is a starter guide I had put together to help people get to know at least some of the more common constructs found in ES2015 / ES6. It references some of my favorite materials I have come across and sets up a few questions for you to

Contemplating the future of Meteor.js

I have been a huge fan of Meteor.js [https://www.meteor.com/] and the thinking behind the framework for the past couple of years. From the first time I hacked up a small todo's application over a weekend to building a large scale web application like ClassMate.

Meteor methods: How to provide a callback for error and success scenerios

In this tutorial will make the following assumptions: 1. That we have a document set we are acting upon that is provided the Schedule symbol to be acted against. This is common in Meteor.js applications. 2. We are using ES2015+ 3. The code you are about to see is

Meteor and MongoDB: Dynamically updating properties of objects nested within an array

Before we get into some of the code we will make the following assumptions: 1. Our document set is named Schedule 2. We are using ES2015+ Take this example document structure: { _id: '123-456-789', ownerId: '123', schedule: [ { _id: '432-1234-12', sectionTitle: '

If you are Saying "ES6" You're Doing it Wrong

I Love the Term ES6 It easily rolls off the tongue and is slicker to write about. ES2015 sounds clunky and is hard to say. I always want to abbreviate it in conversations. I would say "ES15" or "Modern JS" or "ESNext", which of