Don’t Over React! Rendering Binary Data
Front-End Full-Stack WebWith modern browser APIs, handling large binary files is safe and effective.
DESTROY ALL CLASSES: Turn React Components Inside Out with Functional Programming
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpWith React's stateless functional components, you can create ambitious apps that are 98% plain ol' JavaScript. This design encourages component purity and makes it...
Cross Stitching: Elegant Concurrency Patterns for JavaScript
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebYou've probably heard statements like "JavaScript is a toy language because it doesn't support multithreading." But in fact, JavaScript is well-suited for a plethora...
Hi, I’m Node.js and I’ll be your server today.
Back-End Full-Stack WebThe magical moment has arrived: your startup just got its first round of funding, and you're ready to crunch out an MVP that will...
Encore, JavaScript! Create an MP3 reader with DataViews + TextDecoder
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebLike all good blog posts, this one started with a conversation on Twitter. It ended with a simple JavaScript MP3 metadata reader to demonstrate...
The Tip of the Iceberg: Your Mobile App is Really a Web App
Clients Front-End Full-Stack WebMany of the native mobile apps you love weren’t always native. Will a hybrid web app help you build a successful MVP, or kill...
Asyncing Feeling about JavaScript Generators
Front-End Full-Stack WebAsync generator functions have arrived in JavaScript! Iterate over Stream-like data with a for-loop and even rewrite ReactiveX.js. Read on to see what comes...
JavaScript, make me a Triple Function Sandwich
Front-End Full-Stack WebSince JavaScript is unrelated to Java, many OOP patterns are not idiomatic to JavaScript. So how do you solve common OOP-like problems? It might...
A Brighter Day: Testing your Sunspot Searches, Unit-Style
Back-End Full-Stack WebEvery complex backend server eventually needs three things -- emails, workers and searching. At the Ranch, we like to whip out Solr for handling...
Why I’m Still Working at Big Nerd Ranch
Clients Leveling UpIt’s my third year working at Big Nerd Ranch as a developer and instructor. Inevitably, I have a lot of friends (and recruiters) asking...
Metrics, Metrics: How We Improved our Website Performance, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebAlthough our site was certainly not slow (thanks to the static build), several metrics showed it could benefit from web optimizations. In this post,...
Metrics, Metrics: How We Improved our Website Performance
Front-End Full-Stack WebOur Nerds love graphs. Developers geek out on numbers, designers labor over information visualization, and ops + marketing love upward trends. Web developers, too,...
