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AST fun. Remove a function call from your bundle

posted in JavaScript on 2020-01-13   javascript ast bundle object property path callee javascript esprima node const type

I'm working on a small library that has a logger. I'm bundling the app to a single file and I want to disable the logger for the production version. In this blog post we will see how I removed the logger.log calls from my bundle using AST (abstract syntax tree).

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Using Node.js to rename set of images

posted in Nodejs on 2014-01-22   file processed path glob files fs require

Today I had to rename a bunch of image files to the same names, but in lower case. Here is how I did it.

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FlashDevelop scripting: open file by text selection

posted in ActionScript on 2011-03-20   file script projectpath system path text private static string plugincore

FlashDevelop is one of the most preferred editors for the flash development. I've been also using it last few years. I found it helpful for writing JavaScript, HTML, CSS and PHP code as well. I just took a big project with over 1000 php files and it is a little bit difficult to open the right file, even by using the Project panel. That's why I decided to invest time in solving this task and found that I can write my own C# script and run it.

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