Don’t Over React! Rendering Binary Data
Front-End Full-Stack WebWith modern browser APIs, handling large binary files is safe and effective.
Integrated Testing with React Native, Part 2: Minimize Coupling
Front-End Full-Stack WebExisting tools for testing React Native apps are deeply coupled to a component's rendered structure. By using the object traversal generator function from the...
Integrated Testing with React Native, Part 1: Generator Functions
Front-End Full-Stack WebIn my recent experience, getting started with React Native testing is a little rough since tpopular tools aren't great for integrated testing. The first...
Managing Front-End Assets in Vapor, Part 3: Concatenating Files
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebAs you add more front-end dependencies, you'll need to add more `` and `` tags, and your markup will get unwieldy. Also, downloading many...
Managing Front-End Assets in Vapor, Part 2: Using a Package Manager
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebIn part one of this series, we added some JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet files to our Vapor web app. We also manually downloaded...
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...
Managing Front-End Assets in Vapor, Part 1
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebLet's look at some of the basics of handling CSS and JavaScript in Vapor. We'll set up custom CSS and JS files for your...
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...
Is Your Ember App Too Big? Split it up with Ember Engines, Part 3
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpIn the previous two posts on Ember Engines, we started building an Ember "umbrella" application for mounting a couple Ember Engines. In this post,...
Perfecting Custom Typography in Android
Android Design Front-End Full-Stack WebWhen a custom designed UI is first implemented in an Android build, I often find the styling and nuances of the typography gets lost...
Is Your Ember App Too Big? Split it up with Ember Engines, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpIn this post, you will learn to create an Ember Engine in a separate repository and link the engine to the umbrella application.
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...
