Tag: Frontend and mobile
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PWA vs. React Native
Posted on May 9, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Kirupa wrote this short article in which he describes decision process when one needs to decide between 2 technologies. Two of the hottest technologies for building cross-platform apps these days are Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and React Native.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Creating UI Component Design System
Posted on May 7, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
The guide by Rahul Goradia on topic of UI Components Design System. You can think of it as an instruction manual. It's also like an inventory which can be used to pick up resources and use them in your design.
Tags frontend-and-mobile how-to product-and-design
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How I migrate Node.js app to serverless using Lambda & API Gateway & Terraform
Posted on May 6, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
Herve Khg published this hands on guide how he goes about migrating projects to serverless. The guise only focuses on the terraform code for building the infrastructure, not on the app code itself.
Tags frontend-and-mobile how-to devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Improving third-party web performance at the Telegraph
Posted on May 5, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Written by Gareth Clubb this article is about improving the performance of the telegraph frontend. Improving the performance impact of third-party scripts on a website takes time; results won't come overnight, but by being patient and chipping away slowly, eventually these efforts will be rewarded.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering how-to
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The one mistake I made as a developer I wished I learned sooner
Posted on May 4, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
An article by Aphinya Dechalert about her journey from zero to dev lead and what she wished she could learn early in her career. The moral of her story -- protect your time.
Tags frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to
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Continuous Delivery and software distributors
Posted on May 3, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
Thoughts from Robert Collins on luck of continuous delivery in Free / Libre and Open Source Software projects. He outlines how continuous delivery could work for such a project.
Tags frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Testing software fast and hard
Posted on May 2, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
A piece from the pen of Peter Parkanyi about challenges and approaches to testing. There has been a lot of research on the software crisis and how to get out of the mess we're in, and it often contradicts the wisdom of the crowd. He takes a look at different strategies that drive software quality, and where they actually make a difference.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering leadership-and-career testing-and-quality
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Avoid ugly if / else blocks and make your code modular with Strategy
Posted on May 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Iskander Samatov is this introduction into Strategy design pattern and JavaScript. One particular piece of syntax that is unlikely to ever change in ES6 is if / else and switch statements.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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9 headless CMS options for your JAMstack site
Posted on April 30, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Nebojsa Radakovic from bejamas.io, in which author shares their experience with the headless CMSs they used so far on about 30 JAMstack projects. JAMstack is a modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.
Tags frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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Inside look at modern web browser
Posted on April 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
In this article from Mariko Kosaka she walks you though insides of the Chrome browser from high-level architecture to the specifics of the rendering pipeline. If you ever wondered how the browser turns your code into a functional website, or you are unsure why a specific technique is suggested for performance improvements, then the article and next 3 ones in this series is for you.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous
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Lambda deployment frameworks compared
Posted on April 19, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A comparison piece by Yan Cui about underlying plumbing when deploying Lambda function to AWS. One needs to be able manage the configuration for functions as well as other related resources such as API Gateway, CloudWatch log groups and IAM policies.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile
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How to collect, customize, and centralize Python logs
Posted on April 17, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This is a detailed guide on hot topic -- how to collect, customize, and centralize Python logs. From pens of Emily Chang and Nils Bunge. this guide will show you how to configure this module to log all the data you need, route it to your desired destinations, and centralize your logs to get deeper insights into your Python applications.
Tags backend-development software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile