Patrick Bacon on Atomic Spin

Building a Fake API for Testing & Development

A discussion of a few different options for dealing with an external integration, and why I think a custom, fake API implementation is the way to go.

Web Apps

Understanding the Apollo Default Resolver

The difference between the default resolver and an explicitly specified resolver in Apollo's graphql-tools – specifically arguments passed to a function called by the default resol

Web Apps

Extending the Heroku Timeout in Node.js

It's possible to extend the default Heroku 30 second timeout by sending meaningless bytes back to the client. This post shows how to do so using Node.js / Express middleware.

Web Apps

Redux: Re-Rendering Caused by mapDispatchToProps

Avoid using the ownProps parameter in your mapDispatchToProps functions to prevent unnecessary (and unexpected) re-renders.

Development Practices

TIME_WAIT and Your Test Suite

What it means when a socket server, in this case being used in a test suite, ends up in the TIME_WAIT state, and how to prevent it.

.NET / WPF

Pattern Matching in C# with Switch Statements

C# 7.0 introduced pattern matching support in its switch statements. Here are some examples of how you can now switch on object types, etc. in C#.

Developer Tools

Five Chrome DevTools Tips for Troubleshooting Web Apps

This post discusses 5 tools/tips for using Chrome's DevTools to troubleshoot JavaScript and DOM issues while developing a web app.

Web Apps

Importing with Absolute Paths using webpack in JavaScript/TypeScript

How to use absolute paths in JavaScript and TypeScript to improve your import statements, using the right webpack configuration.

Developer Tools

Running the Current Test File in VS Code

How to configure Visual Studio Code to run an external shell command passing the current file as an argument. Great for running tests!

TypeScript

DateStr – A Strongly-Typed Date String for TypeScript

Introducing DateStr, a strongly-typed string representation of a date in TypeScript, built using type guards and a nominal typing technique.

Developer Tools

Running Tests from MacVim in iTerm2 Version 3

An update to an AppleScript script that can be triggered from MacVim to find a specific iTerm2 tab for running focused tests.

Ruby on Rails

Code Generation for Rails Utility Scripts

Using code generation for your Rails utility scripts (like importing demo data into production) that can then be executed remotely (no need to deploy).

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