Introduction:Let's face it - keeping everyone on the same page in a large project can sometimes feel like herding cats. Designers want pixel perfection, developers want maintainable code, and stakeholders just want it done yesterday. Meet the powerful pair of design systems: Figma and Storybook,...
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...
There's a multitude of things that can go wrong at runtime when your client communicates with a GraphQL server. In this post I'll demonstrate how to build a React UI so that the user is notified whenever any error is encountered by Apollo Client....
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.
This blog post is a tutorial on how to deploy a static web application to AWS S3.
It includes a comprehensive explanation on what we're doing; hence the length! However, there will be some skipping points which you can click when you don't want to hear about lengthy explanations.
For you who like to dive into the source code directly, I've made a Github repo for this post as well.
Why GraphQL and App SyncGraphQL 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...
