React is allowing developers to iterate faster and build safer, more reliable frontend applications than we were building many years ago. TypeScript, a relatively new addition to the “JavaScript Alternatives” scene, also aims to add a new level of safety in the form of type safety. Naturally, it makes sense for us to want to […]
A common theme in TypeScript is to define an interface for a data structure. Additionally, it’s fairly common to post data structures to an HTTP endpoint to create resources. You may even find yourself posting another structure with some of the same properties to update that data structure. Instead of creating another interface for the […]
React hooks have changed the way that I (and arguably the React Community) prefer to build components. I’ve been working on a GraphQL project for a while, and when we migrated to functional components and hooks, I was able to use Apollo’s hooks for my data fetching needs. However, I find myself now working on […]
React hooks have really changed the game for me when it comes to building react components. However, I’ve found that writing autosaving functionality is a little less obvious via hooks. Thankfully, it is still possible (and arguably a lot cleaner) when using hooks. We can accomplish autosaving functionality through use of useEffect. You’ll also need […]
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 […]