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 for Aurelia.
You have two approaches you can take when using Aurelia Store with an API, and we’ll discuss the pros and cons of each one. This article is going to be a small and relatively non-technical article.
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 in January 2019, up to three collaborators. This is a move that directly competed with competing Atlassian owned source control platform Bitbucket which offered free private repos as well.
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 Angular, Ember, Vue and any other framework or library which offers two-way binding on input elements or modifying the input itself.
Recently at my day job, I encountered a very specific scenario that I wrestled with for quite a bit. I had a routed set of views, which were using a layout view template because it needed a very specific markup for positioning using CSS Grid.
The issue I had was although the route layout had a element inside of it for projecting the routes, I wanted a custom navigation element to be projected inside of the routed view. Previously there was a bit of duplication to add the custom element into the right area.
Decorators are currently a stage 2 proposal in Javascript and they allow you to decorate classes, class properties and methods. If you have worked with Aurelia for longer than 5 minutes or other frameworks such as Angular, you will already be familiar with them.
At the core of a decorator, it is a function that returns a function. It wraps the context of wherever it is applied. Decorators allow you to add new properties/methods to a class or change existing behaviours.
I recently encountered an error in GitKraken after a bad merge occurred when trying to merge in some changes from the main development branch, whilst I had quite a few local changes that GitKraken usually automatically stashes for me.
My problem was I was using Bash Ubuntu on Windows, which has a nasty habit of locking files. The merge and stashing seemed to fail because in the changes I was attempting to merge in, some files were deleted.
I tried closing and reopening GitKraken, but it was clear that GitKraken wasn’t going to let me open up that repo again.
Recently, I published a blog title which I titled, The State of JS Survey Is A Farce in which I expressed criticism that the State of JS survey is highly inaccurate, biased and dangerous.
I didn’t get a roaring response until a developer who is one of three running the survey Sasha Greif out of nowhere expressed feelings that I was unkind in my blog post in a Tweet that tagged me.
@AbolitionOf calling the State of JS a “farce” was pretty unkind. I hope you get better treatment if you ever launch your own projects
I have been working with Aurelia Store these past few months and at one point, I decided that it would be a great idea to write a book on how to leverage the Aurelia Store plugin in your Aurelia applications.
I have been writing on and off for a while and the book now has enough content in it, that I am ready to announce the book. The book is just over 40% complete and keeping in line with how LeanPub operates, the book is a constant work in progress that will be published often. At present, I am publishing once per day.
The State of JS is a survey that has been running for a few years now, which surveys front-end developers and aims to find out what they’re using, what they love, what they’re interested in learning and what they’re not interested in knowing.
The survey sounds good in theory, it gives you insight into the state of front-end development and the various tools, libraries and frameworks people are using.
In practice, the survey is a farce. The 2018 version of the survey saw over 20,000 respondents complete the survey. While 20,000 respondents seem quite low given the number of developers out there who identify as front-end or Javascript developers, the actual issue here is the data, in this case, is biased. When you use biased data, you get a biased result.
I generally avoid promoting things on my blog, but this month I am a part of the Infostack Ultimate Programmer Super Stack, my Aurelia book is a part of this fantastic bundle.
For $47.95 you get my Aurelia For Real World Web Applications book, as well as a few other programming books and courses. A whole wide variety of topics are covered, and if you’re like me, you lap these kinds of bundles up because you’re always hungry to learn something new.