Using Hamcrest Matchers with Vert.x Unit

Vert.x Unit is a very elegant library to test asynchronous applications developed with vert.x. However because of this asynchronous aspect, reporting test failures is not natural for JUnit users.

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Real-time bidding with Websockets and Vert.x

The expectations of users for interactivity with web applications have changed over the past few years. Users during bidding in auction no longer want to press the refresh button.

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ECMAScript 6/7 on the JVM with TypeScript and Vert.x

I figured it would be a good idea to give you a couple of examples how teaming Vert.x and TypeScript helps you use ECMAScript 6 and 7 features on the JVM today.

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Automatic redeployment in Eclipse IDE

Vert.x 3.1 has (re-)introduced the redeploy feature. This blog post explains how to use this feature in the Eclipse IDE. However, you can easily adapt the content to your IDE.

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Combine vert.x and mongo to build a giant

This blog post is part of the introduction to Vert.x series. We are now going to replace this JDBC client by the vertx-mongo-client, and thus connect to a Mongo database.

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Vert.x ES6 back to the future

On October 21th, 2015 we all rejoiced with the return from the past of Marty McFly with his flying car and so on, however in the Vert.x world we were quite sad about our rather old JavaScript support.

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