ReasonML, also known as JavaScript-flavored OCaml, offers nearly impenetrable type safety for developing user interfaces. By adopting a static type system, you can eliminate an entire class of errors before your app is served. Update 4/11/19: ReasonReact 0.7.0 has introduced some updates to the base API (including hooks! ) so…

Before I landed my first paying role as a software developer, I had to learn how to stay fired up about working in tech. After graduating, it took me 9 months to get my first solid job. To survive in the joblessness, I delivered pizzas and did simple freelance projects. …

Today in web development, we will be learning how to: Easily setup a GraphQL Server with NodeJS Mock data without a database using json-server Build a CRUD app that speaks GraphQL How Apollo saves us a lot of time and effort If any of these items interest you, read on…

There is a lot of busywork that comes with writing blogs and posting them to different platforms. For example, I usually start writing an article by creating a markdown file within my code editor. …

One thing I struggled with when I started learning React was testing my web apps in a way that is both useful and intuitive. I used Enzyme with Jest to shallow render a component every time I wanted to test it. Of course, I was absolutely abusing the snapshot testing…

To be honest, I didn’t know what to think of GraphQL when I first heard of it. I was watching Netflix engineers talk about scaling their microservices with Node.js when one of them mentioned he worked on GraphQL in its early days at Facebook. Enamored by its name and its…

Something that has held my interest recently has been finding better ways to build and test JavaScript applications, particularly those speak GraphQL. Say I have a GraphQL server written in Node.js, how should I arrange my folder structure? Where should I put my schema and resolvers? …

A couple weeks ago I got this crazy idea to try out a new front end framework that isn’t React. Given the recent hype behind Vue, I figured that this would be a good opportunity to get dirty with it. I usually start learning a new technology by going through…

The young web developer knows the web. They’ve spent countless hours slinging divs and casting margins. They’ve hammered out countless to-do applications in JavaScript, Python, Golang, Fortran, Basic… you name it! But now, this hotshot developer wants to conquer a less familiar territory. They want to displace their team’s gang…