Andrew Golightly
fullstack JavaScript developer
(specialist in Node.js and ReactJS)
automation & web development
Communication (in addition to coding skills) is key to making a project successful. I’m a fully trained developer, coach and counsellor.
I build everything from websites to apps. My passion is turning ideas people are passionate about into a digital reality.
Do you have a great idea you would love to see built?
Latest Testimonials
“Andrew helped me go from idea to working app, he was proactive in researching the process we’d need to follow, breaking tasks down into next steps. Making great suggestions on best practice and how improve the app even further. I’d definitely recommend him and look forward to working with him again in future.”
— Helen Ryles (UK)
— Jody Edgar (Sunbowl, Canada)
Recent articles
How to programatically extract YouTube captions as plain text
YouTube automatically creates subtitles for a lot of videos that are uploaded to YouTube. So instead of paying to have your videos transcribed, you can upload your video to YouTube, and programatically download the subtitles. [...]
How to safely store credentials in GitHub
It is actually pretty convenient to have credentials and keys stored in the same repository as your codebase. Of course this is unsafe, as anyone (if you're using public repos) can use those credentials to [...]
How to automatically restart forever (for Node.js scripts and servers) on a system reboot
I use forever to start my Node.js scripts, to ensure that if it crashed, it would just auto-restart. An issue arises though if the server itself reboots. Which for some reason happened on a DigitalOcean [...]