Sunday, 21 January 2024

With a little bit of workaround it's possible to deploy a static Astro site to deno deploy. Initially Astro's docs indicated only SSR was supported.

Friday, 30 September 2022

This is a simple demo app that get's a list of applicants from the server. Those applicants are listed in a table. The user can filter and sort them.

Monday, 2 May 2022

Finding tools on the web is getting increasingly difficult with a regular search engine. This post talks about some of the places on the web that make this easy.

Monday, 10 January 2022

Loop over an array with a recursive function. In this case the array entry has a URL that should be validated before moving on to the next

Thursday, 14 October 2021

The pagination component created in another post will be published on NPM. It allows others to use the component in their React projects.

Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Let's build a pagination component. It should adhere to some basic UI interaction requirements. The goal is deliver an extra light component.

Sunday, 18 April 2021

After setting up a basic ElectronJS, this article discusses the preload.js script. It's used to communicate between the main electron process and the unsafe renderer process. The latter is not allowed to access the fs API for security reasons.

Sunday, 11 April 2021

Setup a basic electron (desktop) app using snowpack for ReactJS. This article demonstrates how to get up and running.No webpack and no create-react-app.

Saturday, 6 March 2021

Not having worked very much with VueJS, this is a simple app that goes through the basics. It covers architecture and the way information is shared between components.

Saturday, 23 January 2021

NextJS is great for blogging. MDX adds more power to that by allowing JSX components to be directly rendered in the blog. This post will discuss setup and show examples.

Tuesday, 12 January 2021

The ball is in our court: 'Accept the TOS or stop using WhatsApp' says Facebook. Most people might be OK with this. I'm not. Here are some good alternatives.

Wednesday, 23 December 2020

A look at making some basic animations using vanilla JS. Creating a radar animation demonstrates the basics.

Thursday, 3 December 2020

Store your resume in a JSON doc and then apply various styles to it

Sunday, 18 October 2020

Using for loops is basic however JS offers several ways of looping with functions.

Thursday, 15 October 2020

Breakpoints are great but seem to be troublesome in some cases

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Deploy and test the project directly from the remote server.

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Setup a simple demo login function to see serverless functions in action

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

What if a user's passwords were a list of UUIDs instead? A list that can be generated in a less traditional means.

Friday, 25 September 2020

The uncanny valley is time needed for browsers to process JS code and build your application

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

When handling server side rendering, the Redux data should be populated as well

Sunday, 15 December 2019

A small demo project to work on Svelte. Svelte is a UI Framework, like ReactJS or ViewJS. However it takes a different approach by acting as a compiler.

Friday, 13 December 2019

The dev tools in the browser grow more advanced every day. This post keeps track of some of the most useful features. Where possible key differences between browsers is highlighted. Most features are in Chrome on MacOS.

Friday, 13 December 2019

Configure Jest coverage in Create React App. Coverage indicates how much of the code is tested. A higher than 80% coverage is a decent indicator that the code is working as expected.

Friday, 13 December 2019

CSS grid makes it a pleasure to create layouts. Here we'll create a resume using CSS grid. Only HTML and CSS will be used. No JavaScript required. Another goal is to keep it all in one file to make it easy to distribute and fast.

Saturday, 29 December 2018

How to create and host a static site, including SSL and domain name for 0 euros! Static sites can be hosted for free thanks to some amazing services available as of 2018.

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Running in Docker requires special considerations in the front-end. It should dynamically retrieve the backend end-point. For multiple environments, the same docker image could be used while moving from TST to ACC for example.

Sunday, 11 November 2018

React can replace Java Server Pages (JSP), HandlebarJS, etc. as a templating language on the server.

Sunday, 11 November 2018

Web crawlers can't parse JS which means that Single Page Applications need to render on the server if they want to be indexed by the search engines.

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

How debugging works with visual studio code. It's especially useful when debugging server side projects like NodeJS. Set breakpoint in the editor while developing.