For years now, bubbling underneath the surface there has been a proverbial sewer of Javascript frameworks and libraries flowing through the community. It got to the point where it just felt overwhelming for a lot of developers (myself included), around 2016 is when I started noticing people getting fed up. Looking back over the years, … →

As many readers of this blog know, I have been quite actively involved in Aurelia for over two and a half years now, it’s actually almost three years. You could be forgiven for thinking that Aurelia is all I work with and while I do work with it a lot, I am not close minded. … →

This is a bug I recently encountered with Karma and the Karma Sauce Launcher plugin. It plagued me for a week, finally I worked out the issue and I had to share the solution incase anyone else encountered the same thing. The issue I encountered was none of the SauceLabs tests would run. It would … →

Well, this one just stung me and a client after migrating from Bootstrap v3 over to v4 in a project. In Bootstrap of yesteryear, you overrode colours using separately named variables like $brand-primary if you’re new to v4, you’ll probably try and use variables like these and discover they do nothing. In Bootstrap v4 colours … →

As a self-taught developer, it’s easy to feel like you missed out on something, and assume your colleagues who did get a degree know more than you. Your colleagues know about algorithms and CS concepts like data structures and you most likely don’t. Does having a degree or not having a degree even matter? In … →

I switched to Yarn a while ago, because Npm is incredibly limited. And while I enjoy fast speed on macOs and Linux, Windows has always been a bit slow. I never actually thought to investigate the issue until one frustrated evening, I had the task manager open and noticed Windows Defender was going crazy when … →

I love Firebase. The power and flexibility of using it alongside my favourite client-side framework Aurelia, unrivalled. Recently whilst building the Built With Aurelia website which uses Firebase, I wanted the ability for logged in users to vote on particular submissions. My Firebase structure is literally the following: submissions: { pokegorun: { added: 1470919840796, category: … →

Let’s cut the crap, as great as Npm is for front-end and Node.js development, it has some pretty glaring issues. Firstly, code is pulled down without any kind of integrity checks being done, so you could be pulling down anything. Secondly, Npm takes forever to install dependencies (downloading as well as unpacking), it is the … →

I am all for developers pushing themselves, learning new things and refining their skills, but the one thing that really annoys me about front-end development right at this moment, is the opinion terrorists who are raving about functional programming. A few examples of the pro functional movement can be seen; here, here, here, here and … →