Egghead.io: Getting Started with Redux

Crystal clear video course on getting started with Redux: Managing state in an application is critical, and is often done haphazardly. Redux provides a state container for JavaScript applications that will help your applications behave consistently. In this series, we will learn the basics of Redux, so that you can start using it to simplify …

Webpack — The Confusing Parts

When I first saw a Webpack config file, it looked very alien-y 👽 and confusing 😱. After playing around with it for some time, I now think that it is because Webpack just has a unique syntax and new philosophies that may cause confusion in the beginning. Incidentally, these philosophies are also responsible for making …

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"); } }()); `; …

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 …

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 …

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”: …