While trying to create consistency in my tests for my Open Sauced (previous revived), I found testing my reducer functions to be challenging.
My reducer is simplistic and possibly naive:
// reducers.js
export function goalsReducer(state, action) {
switch (action.type) {
case "GET":
return state.repository...I have fallen off writing blog posts here in the last two years, and the reason for that has been because blogging became my full-time job. I was offered a role at a new startup to write code for them, as well as, be the point person for their developer relations strategy. 100% of my blogging move to...
I gave a talk on this subject at GraphQL Summit
GraphQL is a query based language for APIs. GraphQL provides a better way to request data from your existing API that can potentially speed up the development experience.
A common misconception of GraphQL is that it needs to replace your current REST API, and this is...
I have been using Graphcool for about a year now and have had my Open Sauced for closer to 7 months now. The hosted version of Graphcool is amazing and everything I needed, at least until they announced the Graphcool Framework. This framework is a way to the build standards...
I was on the Web Platform Podcast chatting about Netlify the focus and vision for Static Apps known aka JAMStack.
Static Web Applications have evolved quite a bit over the past few years. They are now longer just a flat file with scripts added. Now they are fully functional application stacks. Static is no longer...
For awhile now I have wanted to customize my command prompt in my terminal, but I thought I was limited because I did not use the fancy iterm or oh-my-zsh.
Customizing your command prompt in bash is pretty straight, forward. It only requires a little bit of reading and a lot of copy and pasting...
I am in a unique position in the first time of my career where designers out number the amount of Frontend developers at my job. Luckily we chose React for maintain our front-end code, and tools like react-storybook we found prototyping components very approachable for Design and Development. I will...
**slides for this talk are at https://yeezus.netlify.com/(
Within the past year, I have discovered different ways to solve the same problem — managing the increasingly complex data requirements of React Native apps. In this talk, I go through how to manage remote data-flow in a React Native application, using...
As a follow-up to my previous post on Stacks in Go, I am going to walk through my learning of Queues. I now have a bit more confidence with Go and pretty comfortable creating functions and Structs to interact with. I also enjoying using only the Standard library to solve problems, since it is extremely limited comparared to my first...
*slides for this talk are at https://apple-bottom-jeans.netlify.com/
React is a powerful tool to create UIs and it does a great job of getting out of the way when it is not needed. Thanks to this it has enabled front-end developers to focus on other issues including managing data. Thanks to React’s ability to...
I previously implemented a simple data structure to keep track of individuals entering and leaving an amusement park ride line, I outlined the assignment in my previous post. This was pretty trivial to do using Slices in Go, but thanks to my discoveries I realize there are other data structures than Arrays in Computer Science.
From...
The company I mentor for released a course that teaches Software Engineering Principles, which includes basic Computer Sciences concepts. I had the opportunity to audit the course and learn about Data Structures.
The course itself is language agnostic, but provides recommendations to use Ruby, however being a Rubyist...
React is super hot right now and dominating in conversations with JavaScript frameworks, but injecting React into the asset pipeline is not so easy. Within the past 6 months I have discovered a great way to integrated React into my Rails app development workflow and take advantage of what everyone is excited about...
The choice between using the ES class method for declaring component in
React seems to be a decided convention within the React community. The
only issue with it the need to bind the context of this everytime you
create a function. This way you have
The Netlify login form is an easy enough component to look at...
After 36 weeks of learning iOS and React Native, I was able experience making apps in Objective-C, Swift, and React Native.
The result of that became this Conference talk at Forward 4 in February.
*Note towards the end of the talk I answered a question by eluding to a React Native Radio podcast...
Middleman is a static site generator built in Ruby. This site is actually built using Middleman.
Very recently I started working on a project at work that required me to consider SEO on the project. I have never considered how any project I have worked up to this point will be crawled on Google until this project...
I am relatively new to Go and have found it relatively easy to pick up how to do things, but every now and then something trips me up.
A simple task I gave myself was to rewrite a script I wrote in Ruby, in Go. This script takes a list of my coworkers and picks 3 of them at random to alert about my new pull request...
Learning how to do things in React Native requires a balance of using React Native 3rd party libraries, JavaScript libraries, and Native iOS code.
Some things in React Native are pretty straight forward and enabling searching is exactly that. I did however have had explicitly choose a direction due to the multiple...
Having some iOS knowledge, I have a good idea on how to get things done in the Standard NSLibrary.
My most recent goal in my React Native Note App is auto detect links. This is actually pretty trivial in iOS and easily accomplished by wrapping NSDataDetector around the suggested text content.
NSDataDetector...I spent a good amount of time learning iOS using Xcode, Swift, an Objective-C before giving React Native a try, which makes pretty familiar with iOS development as a whole.
Testing on my phone is by far one of the best features I get from my Apple Developer account. There have been countless bugs I...
Hands down, the best way to approach a green field app today is API first. It gives you the flexibility to experiement on the frontend and even leverage mobile.
This video is a Saturday Session with CodeNewbies
Adding Swipe to Delete in React Native I am currently working on a mobile note app from the Bloc iOS curriculum and discovered certain things in iOS transfer over to React Native well.
A lot of iOS apps are built using the UIKit UITableView structure (a list of items presented in rows):
In React Native...
Understanding the context of code in a team repo is hard and it’s harder when the solution to figuring how code works is, “I Don’t Know, just Git Blame and talk to the person who wrote it.” That works until the person to blame is either yourself or unavailable.
Having clean code and readable code is a must for growing...
For every Rails app I have created and thought about creating I have used Heroku. I have never had a need to use anything else, as none of the apps I have developed had users and needed to grow beyond the same place of Heroku.
It is very apparent that Heroku has cornered the market on new Rails apps and most people...
*I realize there is already a Rust for Rubyst and I highly recommend checking it out if you get any interest in Rust from this blog post.
I first heard of Rust from a coworker about 6 months ago while I was learning GO. My background in programming comes solely from learning Ruby, specifically Ruby on Rails...
With the popularity of Javascript frameworks and the move to cross platform development, Now is a good time to start writing your green-field applications with an API first mindset.
Rails 5 has been announce to have a new --api flag included for your
disposal, but this functionality has been around for over a year...
Switching to Ember from Rails or plain html has been a learning experience for me. Certain things that came so easy previously had to be relearned with an understanding of the Ember way, which is not exactly a bad thing.
With my first Ember project I needed to implement a quick grid design and assest associated...
Less than a year ago I took on the challenge of learning to develop with the ember(front-end javacript framework). I gave up rather quickly and did not revisit the challenge until I found a pretty indepth tutorial, which is now outdated. Shortly after the completion of this app I learned of ember-cli which has significantly...
Multiple times I have found myself in need of editing my commit messages due to typos or unclear messages. I have that the use of git commit --amend and git reset -- hard.
Having a short and concise commits have been useful for myself, especially I have had to start and my feature stories multiple times during the course of the...