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typescript 
import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common';
import localeFr from '@angular/common/locales/fr';
import localeFrExtra from '@angular/common/locales/extra/fr';
import localeDe from '@angular/common/locales/de';

Locale-aware bootstrapping in Angular

i18n localization dependency-injection
Intermediate 8 steps
php 
<?php
 
class NameParser
{

Parsing a full name into components in PHP

string-parsing arrays normalization
Intermediate 8 steps
rust 
use serde::Deserialize;
 
#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
#[serde(untagged)]

Parsing flexible JSON shapes with serde

deserialization enums json
Intermediate 6 steps
ruby 
require "shellwords"
require "open3"
 
module Backup

Building safe shell commands in Ruby

shell-out subprocess command-injection
Intermediate 7 steps
python 
from fastapi import FastAPI, WebSocket, WebSocketDisconnect
 
app = FastAPI()
 

Building a WebSocket chat with FastAPI

websockets broadcast connection-management
Intermediate 9 steps
go 
package streaming
 
import (
	"bufio"

Streaming NDJSON logs over HTTP in Go

http-streaming channels select
Advanced 10 steps
typescript 
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { ConfigModule } from '@nestjs/config';
import * as Joi from 'joi';
 

Validating env config at boot in NestJS

configuration schema-validation environment-variables
Intermediate 8 steps
php 
<?php
 
namespace App\Services\Checkout;
 

Validating coupons with Laravel's Pipeline

pipeline chain of responsibility transactions
Intermediate 7 steps
rust 
use std::cmp::{Ordering, Reverse};
use std::collections::BinaryHeap;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::{self, BufRead, BufReader, BufWriter, Lines, Write};

K-way merge of sorted logs in Rust

binary-heap k-way-merge streaming-io
Intermediate 8 steps
ruby 
class UserAgentParser
  BROWSERS = [
    [/Edg\/([\d.]+)/, "Edge"],
    [/OPR\/([\d.]+)/, "Opera"],

Parsing user-agent strings in Ruby

regex pattern-matching lookup-tables
Intermediate 8 steps
java 
@Component
@Converter
public class EncryptedStringConverter implements AttributeConverter<String, String> {
 

Transparent column encryption in Spring & JPA

encryption aes-gcm jpa-converter
Advanced 10 steps
python 
import time
import uuid
 
from django.utils.deprecation import MiddlewareMixin

Attaching per-request context in Django

middleware request lifecycle multi-tenancy
Intermediate 7 steps
javascript 
function evaluate(expression) {
  const tokens = tokenize(expression);
  let pos = 0;
 

Building a recursive descent calculator

parsing recursion operator-precedence
Intermediate 8 steps
go 
package api
 
import (
	"crypto/sha256"

ETag conditional requests in Gin

http-caching etag conditional-requests
Intermediate 6 steps
typescript 
import { Inject, Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
import { CACHE_MANAGER } from '@nestjs/cache-manager';
import { Cache } from 'cache-manager';
import { InjectRepository } from '@nestjs/typeorm';

A cache-aside country lookup in NestJS

cache-aside dependency-injection batch-lookup
Intermediate 8 steps
php 
<?php
 
namespace App\Services;
 

How a password strength validator works in PHP

validation regular-expressions data-driven
Intermediate 8 steps
rust 
use axum::{
    extract::{Path, State},
    response::sse::{Event, KeepAlive, Sse},
};

Streaming import progress with SSE in Axum

server-sent-events streams watch-channel
Advanced 7 steps
ruby 
class LogAggregator
  BUCKET_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M"
 
  def initialize(entries)

Bucketing log entries by the minute in Ruby

aggregation hashing enumerable
Intermediate 5 steps