Category Archives: Elsewhere

Sending/Getting messages to/from a React Native Webview

Enter react-native-webview-bridge, a JavaScript bridge between your React Native app and a WebView contained inside it: var WebViewBridge = require('react-native-webview-bridge'); const injectScript = ` (function () { if (WebViewBridge) { WebViewBridge.onMessage = function (message) { if (message === "hello from react-native") { WebViewBridge.send("got the message inside webview"); } }; WebViewBridge.send("hello from webview"); } }()); `; …

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State of the Art JavaScript in 2016

So, you’re starting a brand new JavaScript front end project or overhauling an old one, and maybe you haven’t kept up with the breakneck pace of the ecosystem. Or you did, but there’s too many things to choose from. React, Flux, Angular, Aurelia, Mocha, Jasmine, Babel, TypeScript, Flow, oh my! Well, the good news is …

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Facebook: Mobile @Scale London recap

Less than three years ago, engineers from Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Facebook — including two from the then brand-new Facebook London office — met at Mobile @Scale in Menlo Park to talk about the challenges of building mobile software at large scale. Last Wednesday, the first Mobile @Scale London showed how far mobile development …

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Apex – Serverless Infrastructure

Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease. A variety of workflow related tooling is provided for testing functions, rolling back deploys, viewing metrics, tailing logs, hooking into the build system and more. Define a project.json as so … { “name”: “bar”, “description”: “Node.js example function”, “runtime”: “nodejs”, “memory”: 128, “timeout”: …

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Multi-layered Parallax Illustration

See the Pen Multi-layered Parallax Illustration by Patryk Zabielski (@zabielski) on CodePen. Good use of data-* attributes to afford manipulation of the shifting of the backgrounds from within the HTML. Do note that the demo won’t run here on bram.us as the narrow screen layout – without parallax – will be used. Multi-layered Parallax Illustration …

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Simple PHP Valuestore Class

If you’re looking for a simple Value Store (you know: key-value) Freek and Jolita over at spatie has whipped up a simple class that does this for you. $valuestore = Valuestore::make($pathToFile); $valuestore->put('key', 'value'); $valuestore->get('key'); // Returns 'value' $valuestore->has('key'); // Returns true // Specify a default value for when the specified key does not exist $valuestore->get('non …

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Safari Technology Preview

Safari Technology Preview is a version of Safari for OS X, distributed by Apple, that includes a cutting-edge, in-development version of the WebKit browser engine. It’s a great way to test upcoming WebKit features and give feedback to the people building them when it’s most useful — early in development. Think Webkit Nightly, but then …

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Update package.json dependencies with npm-check-updates

npm-check-updates is a command-line tool that allows you to upgrade your package.json or bower.json dependencies to the latest versions, regardless of existing version constraints. npm-check-updates maintains your existing semantic versioning policies Install it using npm install -g npm-check-updates Then run ncu to check for updates, and run ncu -u to actually update your package.json / …

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