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Restart your app and not your tunnel with ngrok and nodemon

When I am developing web applications in Node.js, I like the server to restart when I make changes, so I use nodemon. When I am developing an application that consumes webhooks or that I want to share publicly, I use ngrok. In fact, I like ngrok so much, I volunteered to help maintain the Node.js wrapper for ngrok.

How to display dates in your user's time zone with the Intl API

Time zones are hard. Not only are there a lot of them, but they don’t fit nicely into whole hour blocks, daylight savings time changes individual zones some of the time, and zones move around and change all the time. In short, it is a hassle.

How to stream file downloads in Node.js with Got

Got is a Node.js library for making HTTP requests. It has both promise and stream based APIs and in this post I want to explore how to use the stream API to download files.