Hey there! I’ll keep this brief, as all of the good content for this post is audio. Yesterday, I worked with a close friend of mine to release our first episode of the Design Doc podcast. That’s the podcast where I dig into questions about personal projects from experienced Software Engineers and we talk through […]
A common theme in web applications is to serve specific content to authenticated users while serving other content to everyone else. I’ve heard this referred to in the past as “auth guarding” specific content. In this case of our example today, we want to auth guard react-router routes. There are a couple of different ways […]
I’ve been working on building a Graphql API in Go and recently ran into an issue serializing Mongo’s ObjectIDs. This doesn’t sound like a difficult task, and thankfully it’s not, but it wasn’t super obvious how to go about this. First, we need to identify what an object ID really is. In the official Mongo […]
Pagination is the idea that a list of content can be broken into separate pages. When I first heard of pagination, the common practice was to use query params to influence which rows of content was loaded by the server. If you clicked the “next” button on the page, it would reload the page with […]
I recently got back from Gophercon in San Diego and am still excited about the talk on the Athens Project. For those unaware, the Athens Project is a module proxy for Go! It’s currently in beta, but showing a ton of promise already. Go’s dependency management has changed a lot over the past few years. […]
An Enum in Java is a special data type that encompasses a set of predefined constants. When setting a variable of that Enum type, you have to use one of the constants that you define for it. A great example is the compass: In the above example, we create a new enum and it’s predefined […]
Go has a fantastic library for writing CLI’s (Command Line Interfaces) called Cobra. I’ve been working on a CLI named Deckard for a few months now. Being new to Go, I had (lazily) shied away from writing tests. However, after thinking about my test plan and doing a little refactoring, I’ve found a great way […]