A core UX principle is that the user should get *instant* feedback about whatever happens in an application. This includes when people are waiting for stuff to load on a website. Going to a site and wait for several seconds (not all live in a first world country with fast internet) can be very confusing […]
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The Complete Guide to Versioning Angular Apps
When doing continuous delivery, it makes sense to automate the release reporting process by automatically generate a changelog. The purpose of a changelog is to document all changes in an app using proper versioning. I have been working with firms where this release reporting process has been such a manual and tedious process that it has […]
Using Git hooks for easier development
Do you have a set of routines you do before you commit and publish code? These routines could be linting, testing and building the code. Imagine if there was a way to automate all of the routes so they got enforced automatically for your whole team? The solution is to use Git hooks. Working with […]
Code Style Matters: Styling Angular apps using Prettier and TSLint
Some people think that well-styled code is a waste of effort and as long as the code works you shouldn’t bother. It’s often the same kind of people how says that writing automatic tests are a waste of time because it is faster to only test manually right now but doesn’t take the future maintenance […]
The Complete Guide to Angular Testing and a Weird Trick for Faster Unit Tests
When doing practices like continuous delivery and continuous integration, testing becomes a more important part of the work because it’s unreasonable to regression test all possible effects of a release manually. When doing five releases on a workday, you don’t get to do a full manual regression testing on every release as that would easily […]
Creating query param synchronization with Redux
Dealing with query params can be some muddy stuff. Done wrong it can be just as ugly as caching logic that is bloating your code base. The way to handle such cross-cutting concerns is using aspect-oriented programming. Nice namedrop smart ass, what does this mean? Well, it means that you are coding in a way […]
How to design Redux apps for scalability and type-safety
Previously I have written about three ways to use Redux, but how do you structure your Redux app for a scalable application? Redux is good for state management in big applications because you get to decouple write from read and you are not dependent on passing data through (potentially) many levels of components. But structured […]
A guide to sharing code between projects
This post is inspired by reading the book Clean Architecture by Robert Martin (Uncle Bob) while working on a project discussing the issue of how code should be shared. In the organization, there was another project working on the almost exact same project, domain wise, but for another customer segment. The two projects got colocated […]