I’ve been working on an application built on the Gatsby framework for a little over a year now, and have had an excellent time doing so. There have been a number of problems (mostly solvable), and a boatload of features and plugins that have saved more time than I can…
I take an approach of “how can this be easier/better” with my engineering, architecture and strategy work, this is the story of how we simplified and improved one of the most tedious parts of Back End (BE) to Front End (FE) relationships, whilst making the whole thing quicker, easier and…
Whilst writing part 1 of this series, I became aware that there wasn’t a huge amount of information or advice on how to utilise the overrides feature within eslint (outside of these docs). …
An age-old story, engineers complaining about reviewing code, having their code reviewed, how long it takes, how much time out of their day it takes. No matter what, it is a vital part of our jobs, and isn’t really going anywhere fast. With the introduction of better linting, better CI…
Do you live in a world where some developers, maybe even you, have specific things you’d like to enforce in a code review? Outside of the realms of the current ESLint rules, Prettier rules, or anything else that can’t be caught via CI? …
One approach to using TypeScript with GraphQL is to generate a TypeScript type library based on a GraphQL schema, creating interfaces for all of the objects we might use in the code, which does work fine.
However, there is a safer way to do this, and that is by having…
Building a REST API using Node.js, deploying to Heroku and accessing it from a slash command within Slack.
The scene.
It’s the day before my wife’s birthday, and I realise, that whilst I have purchased her a gift from me, I haven’t purchased her one from our cats; a time-honoured tradition in…
I am a Senior Front-End Engineer at Perkbox, working within a large team of FE developers split over 5 projects. Alongside the day-to-day feature building and bug fixing, we are encouraged to try new techniques and practices to increase the quality of our work and our overall working practices.
I am a Senior Front-End Engineer at Perkbox, working within a large team of FE developers split over 5 projects. Alongside the day-to-day feature building and bug fixing, we are encouraged to try new techniques and practices to increase the quality of our work and our overall working practices.
This…
