Keeping up with the blazingly fast-changing landscape of front-end engineering and Javascript can be challenging. From build tools to full-blown frameworks, we are spoilt for choice – and sometimes bewildered by it. Determined to cut through the noise and be a guiding light, Web Directions Code...
TGRS stands for TypeScript, GraphQL, React and serverless. Over the last couple of years we have successfully built a number of enterprise single-page applications (SPAs) using this stack of technologies, as they complement each other well. In this post I'll talk about what our motivations have been for choosing...
In this post I want to share a story. The story is about how I added semantic-release to an existing Angular library project. It's also about some of the errors I encountered along the way, and how I resolved them. There aren't many such stories...
Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
tl;dr Frontend developers need to start building their own servers, for the sake of both their end-users and themselves. GraphQL is a great way to do it.
A couple of weeks ago I attended ComponentsConf 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. This conference focuses on JavaScript frameworks and libraries, and I was pretty excited to attend it. This is because over the last year I have been working on a component library to be shared across a number of projects. It needs to work in everything from Drupal to Angular, and we're still trying to find the best foundation to build it on. A conference that is framework-agnostic seemed like a good place to learn more about the options that are available.
Gather round disciples, your master is finally ready to reveal the ultimate secrets of the senior developers. Learn how to transform complex, unreadable code into poetry. Or, more accurately, learn what goes through an old developer's head when he's trying to clean up some dodgy code.
Why GraphQL and App Sync GraphQL has taken the API world by storm as an alternative to REST APIs. One of its main benefits is to enable clients to query for just the data they need. All the types that are exposed in an API are...