WordPress has long been the de facto publishing platform for the web. But many developers are hearing more about the JAMStack. Here's why I switched, and my take on where I think things are going to go from here.
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› Read more of "Don't fear the JAMStack"A significant part of our jobs as developers is explaining technical things to people who don't have the same technical knowledge. How do we help someone to make a decision that involves technical understanding?
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› Read more of "Explaining technical things to nontechnical thinkers"Search is a massive growth market but there is only one market leader and many inadequate contenders. Here's why I think we should be building more search providers to expand the market.
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› Read more of "The search service landscape"I recently came across two different examples of setup that used Redux to manage state in a sample app. They were so different that I thought it was worth delving a little deeper into why, and how we can write Redux code so it's a good fit for our needs.
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› Read more of "Comparing two redux setups"Would you use GatsbyJS for a dynamic app? Yes I would. The reason is that I can make good use of Gatsby's great developer experience, as well as do everything I would normally do in a React application. Here's how I recently implemented dynamic routing.
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› Read more of "Dynamic client side routes in GatsbyJS"I was asked to list some of my favourite books recently, so I compiled the following list, which is very loose and still might be missing some of my favourites!
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› Read more of "Some of my favourite books"I had this discussion with a friend over Slack recently, and wanted to share it here in case I wanted to help someone else with the concept in the future
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› Read more of "What is Typescript?"I made the original animation for this site when I was using Hugo, but it's taken some time to refactor to React. Here's the story of how I achieved that.
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› Read more of "Creating my homepage animation"In the January 2020 issue of Net Magazine, we walked through how to use React testing library to write basic unit tests for your React components. In this article I'm going to dive a little deeper and show how to write tests for some code that fetches data from an API.
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› Read more of "How to test JavaScript API Calls"Webiny is a new CMS in the market, one that seeks to compete with other well-established headless CMS platforms and existing apps. But I've also come to enjoy using it for another reason...
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› Read more of "Learning serverless with Webiny"“Wisest are they who know they do not know.”
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