Being a parent, as any other parent would attest is rewarding, but hard work. And nothing has made modern parenting more challenging than YouTube. We managed to not expose our firstborn son to any TV or screens until he was two. We were doing well until we had a trip booked from Australia to the …
Mocking Default Imports In Jest With TypeScript
If you are writing tests using Jest and you use TypeScript, there is a good chance you have encountered an error along the lines of TypeError: defaultsDeep_1.default is not a function or TypeError: myClass.default is not a constructor when trying to test a file that is using a default import from a module. You most …
My Experiences One Year (and counting) Working From Home
A little over a year ago I took a new job and because the office is close to an hour and a half away, I wanted to work remotely for most of the week. Commuting upwards of three hours a day five times a week would have destroyed me. So, while I don’t work 100% …
When To Use State Management In Front-end Applications?
As ubiquitous as state management has become in front-end development, it is still a confusing magical black box to most developers. Data goes in, data goes out, and nobody thinks about what happens in-between. Some developers believe the answer to the question in my title is: always. While some don’t believe in using state management …
Default Exports = Bad
Hello humans. In JavaScript, the worlds most loved and internets favourite client-side language, thanks to modern ECMAScript standards, we have default and named exports. It’s simple, and you have a file that exports something to be imported somewhere else. A named export is explicit and is only importable by its defined name. A default export …
TAD (Test After Development)
Testing is a crucial part of any modern development process. If you’re not testing your code, you might as well be writing it blindfolded and hoping when you push to production that it works, if the company doesn’t go bankrupt from all of the bugs first. But, I am a realist. Being honest, we all …
What I Love About Aurelia
There is no shortage of Javascript frameworks and libraries to choose from. Notably, you have Angular, React, and Vue, which are the most discussed and used. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know how much I love Aurelia and have blogged about it since early 2015. If you are new, let …
Working With An API In Aurelia Store
Unless you’re working on a completely static web application, chances are you’ll be needing to get data from an API or send data to one. In Aurelia, you would usually do this either using the HTTP Client or Fetch Client (you should be using Fetch). However, what about Aurelia Store? The versatile state management library …
My Thoughts On GitHub Sponsors
It’s hard to believe that it has almost been a year since Microsoft completed its acquisition of GitHub. While a vocal number of people in the community decried the decision and some moved to GitLab since the acquisition Microsoft has made a series of positive moves. It all started with GitHub making private repositories free …
Masked Inputs In Aurelia: The Easy (and reliable) Way
When it comes to adding in masked inputs into a modern Javascript web application, it is easier said than done. The task at hand is simple, yet, under the surface is paved with complexity in a framework with unidirectional data flow. The problem I am going to describe is also a problem you’ll encounter in …
