If we we’ve spent any time developing, specifically with JavaScript, we’ve seen the White Screen of Death. Nothing renders to the screen, and the only way of investigating the issue we caused is by opening the console and looking at the stack trace.
Many people I respect and admire have voiced conflicting opinions on their blogs and Twitter recently. I wanted to reply in general with reference to a song that pops into my head every time I hear those conflicting opinions being discussed.
When you start a Node web server using it’s HTTP interface you will by default run on a specific host that resolves to 127.0.0.1, your localhost. Here’s how to access your NodeJS server on Mac in Windows using Parallels.
I’m not proud of the code I wrote today. In fact, I hated it. But that’s okay, it did what it needed to. And I’m going to redo it tomorrow.
Structuring components in a reusable, discoverable way is a challenge across teams with diverse requirements. It can be difficult for developers unfamiliar with your library. Id like to introduce the idea of Atomic Development using React and styled-components.
Wow. 2018 was a real rollercoaster for me. This is a brief review so that I can look back on what I achieved, and set out what I hope I can achieve in web development this year.
In the recent past, I’ve heard React being criticised for not being accessible, or for allowing practices that don’t help developers think about accessibility. I have to disagree.
I started a mini project this week to collect developer blogs so that I can connect more with the community. I hope that this can be a way of encouraging people to do more with their personal blogs…
Part of the way through a project to replace an app with a static site generated by Gatsbyjs, initial tests revealed that we there was a lot we could do to improve the performance. These are the steps we took to cut load times to under 3 seconds.
When Im explaining the idea of Serverless architecture it often takes three conversations before someone understands where I’m coming from, why we put up with the sometimes difficult to understand restrictions it puts on development, and ultimately why it can be extremely useful. In this post, I’m going to document these three conversations that Ive had with many people in the last few months.