TIL, 2018-02-11, Automate Spotify Opening

Musings

• Added a script to automate starting Studying/listening to Study music. What’s the fastest way to do that? Shell script alias into some Applescript I saw on StackOverflow. Hackish but it works XD

alias study='open -a Spotify; spotify play uri spotify:user:12138319146:playlist:1QgeLNN0GpwUfb3FjYyTai; itermFront'

function itermFront {
  osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm2"' \
            -e 'set frontmost to true' \
            -e 'end tell'
}

• I just checked out Sitepoint and there was a peer review thing going on. I love it.

Cramming a React App/Bootstrap

Steps/Gotchas

• create-react-app hikelords
• yarn add jquery yarn add popper.js yarn add bootstrap
• import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css'; in the App.js file, not the CSS file?
• Apparently React JSX syntax is particular re: closing tag on img (`

References

• Popper Reference: Used to manage poppers in JS.
• Yarn Reference
  • Problem with npm: Hard to install, security concerns as npm allows packages to run code on installation.
  • package.json: Version numbers aren’t always exact. You can have two machines with the same package.json file, having different versions of a package installed.
  • npm shrinkwrap creates an npm lock file.
  • Yarn installs packages in parallel. NPM, sequential.
  • Cleaner output.
  • yarn add <something> [-dev]. Download then add a dependency.