July 8, 2020 — Tauri is a toolchain for creating small, fast, and secure desktop apps from your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this article, Kelvin explains how Tauri plays well with the progressive framework Vue.js by integrating both technologies in bundling an example web app … Read More…

July 3, 2020 — Testing gives confidence in written code. In the context of this article, ‘testing’ means ‘automated testing’. Without automated testing, it is significantly harder to ensure the quality of a web application of significant complexity. Fails caused by automated testing may … Read More…

July 2, 2020 — Statically generated sites or pre-rendering and server-side rendered applications are two modern ways to build front-end applications using JavaScript frameworks. These two modes, yet different, are often mixed up as the same thing and in this tutorial, we’re going to learn … Read More…

June 29, 2020 — In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to work with Firebase push notifications in the backend and frontend. We’ll set up the notifications system with an Express back-end server. Afterwards, we’ll listen for the notifications in a React front-end app. Read More…

June 22, 2020 — In this article, we’ll be looking at a new way of retrieving data in React Apps named SWR. This is a set of hooks for remote data fetching that makes things easier, such as caching, pagination, and so on. Read More…

June 17, 2020 — In this final part of Mirage JS Deep Dive series, we will be putting everything we’ve learned in the past series into learning how to perform UI tests with Mirage JS. Read More…

June 16, 2020 — When working with React, we maintain a lot of state. To make updates to our state, we need to write a lot of reducers. In this article, we’re going to learn how to use Immer to write reducers, and more. Read More…

June 12, 2020 — Adding Internationalization to your Vue.js application has a lot of use cases and in this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to do this with the Vue I18n plugin and how to set it up in our application. Read More…

June 10, 2020 — In this third part of Mirage JS Deep Dive series, we will be focusing on using response, timing and passthrough in Mirage for a better handle on simulating an actual backend server. Read More…