REST APIs are a common standard for modern applications. The strategy and tactics for building APIs using REST are well defined, and all sorts of companies offer REST APIs for consumers, partners, and clients. REST APIs power some of the most used applications on the planet. Developers like having explicit URIs that use standardized “VERBS”…
All we want to do is write good code and ship cool features. Why can’t JavaScript development environments just work? JavaScript developers continually deal with: library version inconsistencies installation and configuration differences between team members module differences divergent configuration setups Plus other problems that slow down development and cause “Works-on-my-machine-itis”. What if you could declare…
React Native is the dominant cross-platform mobile framework for React users. It’s powerful, full-featured, and powers many thousands of mobile applications across the iOS and Android landscape. Choosing React Native is a great choice. You may have heard of NativeScript. It’s a cross-platform, mobile framework for creating truly native mobile applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular,…
Have you ever noticed the warnings on medication about not operating heavy machinery? How many industrial accidents are there because an equipment operator took a healthy swig of Nyquil before getting to work? Apart from the warning sticker, there’s no real prevention of this condition. If you stretch this metaphor to software development, you’d have…
The best way to annoy and frustrate users is to give them a sluggish, unresponsive experience. So if you’d like your users to curse your name and yell in frustration, skip this article. Still here? Cool. As you know, in modern JavaScript, it is too easy to ship excessive megabytes of JavaScript code to the…
On Wednesday, November 18th, TJ VanToll, and I interviewed Julian Gonggrijp, a scientific programmer for the Digital Humanities Lab at Utrecht University. He recently spent quite a bit of time reworking the structure of the popular Underscore.js library. On the show, we discussed what it was like to analyze and undertake the modularization work. We also discussed…