Tom Parsons – Medium

Published in The Startup

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A Look Back at a First Year of Using Gatsby JS.

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…

Gatsbyjs

5 min read

Apr 10

Improving your JavaScript codebase with one small change!

Are you on a quest to improve your JavaScript syntax? Want to make your code more consistent? Are you tired of ugly import patterns like this littering your codebase? Import Homer from "../../../../../../Components/Simpsons/Homer" Import {Marge} from "../../../../../../Components/Simpsons" When you could have something easier to add and easier to read instead? …

Java Script

2 min read

Apr 23, 2021

How we sped up delivery, improved reliability and eased our processes in one fell swoop. A Back End & Front End romance story.

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…

Java Script

4 min read

How we sped up delivery, improved reliability and eased our processes in one fell swoop.

Published in Weekly Webtips

·Jun 10, 2020

Improving code reviews. Part 2; utilising lint overrides

Part 1 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). This is something I recommend utilising as it will allow you to understand when and…

Java Script

4 min read

Improving code reviews. Part 2; utilising lint overrides

May 24, 2020

Improving code reviews. Part 1; reactive improvements

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…

Java Script

5 min read

Improving code reviews. Part 1; reactive improvements

Published in The Startup

·Dec 17, 2019

Building an overly specific lint rule with ESLint, AST and React

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? …

Java Script

6 min read

Building an overly specific lint rule with ESLint, AST and React

Published in ITNEXT

·Dec 17, 2019

Automated TypeScript typing with GraphQL & Apollo

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…

Graph QL

4 min read

Apr 18, 2019

Building a Slack app; Starting to Shipping in, like, an hour.

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…

Slack

5 min read

Mar 27, 2019

Migrating to Typescript; how we learned to love enums.

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. Previously…

Java Script

3 min read

Migrating to Typescript; How we learned to love Enums

Mar 9, 2019

Migrating to Typescript; Stateless and Stateful Components

React

4 min read

Migrating to Typescript; Stateless and Stateful components