Why I Still Use Redux for Global State Management on React Projects

One question comes up at the beginning of every greenfield React project I work on: how do we manage global state? We always debate the merit of using Redux versus rolling our own global state management solution using React context and hooks. We’ve ended up choosing Redux for each project, and here’s why. (This post […]

Getting Create React App & Express to Share Code Without Ejecting (Using Webpack & Typescript)

On a recent project, we used Create React App (CRA) as a starting point. It provides a lot of features out of the box that make starting a new React project a breeze, and it has a community-driven update path. I also wanted to share Typescript code between the front end and back end, something […]

Maintaining Order with Apollo Query Hooks

On my current React project, we are using the hooks provided by Apollo to fetch and mutate data with GraphQL. One of the components I wrote had a query that relied on data from a previous query. The component looked similar to this example: export const BadSelect = () => { const [selectedPokemon, selectPokemon] = […]

Three Great Features of the Insomnia REST Client

A while ago, I started using the Insomnia REST Client for exploratory API testing. I was initially drawn in by its clean UI and ease of use. I keep using it thanks to three features that allow my team to be more productive when messing around with new APIs. Exportable Workspaces One great feature of […]

Using Developer Authenticated Identities with Cognito Identity Pools In TypeScript

Cognito identity pools provide an easy way to enable your users to have limited access to your AWS backend. With developer authenticated identities, you can integrate Cognito into your existing authentication process. 1. Create an Identity Pool Go to the Cognito developers console and click “Manage Identity Pools,” then “Create new identity pool.” Name your […]

Commit Your “One-Time-Use” Scripts to Version Control

You’ve probably written a script that was intended to be used only once. But what do you after it has served its purpose? It’s easy to throw it in the digital trash bin when you’re done, but I believe these “throwaway” files should be tracked in version control.

Front End to Back End: Communicating With a React Native WebView

In my latest blog post, I talked about how we decided to make an existing web application work offline by running it in a WebView inside of React Native. This allowed us to reuse our front-end code. But what about our back-end code? One of the reasons we chose React Native is because it can […]

Running a Static HTTP Server in React Native

One of my recent projects required us to make an existing web application work offline. Initially, we considered making a progressive web app. We quickly eliminated this option since PWAs have several limitations, most importantly storage size. Eventually, we decided to embed our web application into a WebView within a React Native application since we […]

Embedding YouTube Videos in Android Applications

YouTube is the largest video sharing platform in the world, so it makes sense to include its videos in a mobile app. In this article, I’m going to cover how to add them to your Android application using YouTube’s official API.

Importing AWS Infrastructure to Terraform

Terraform is a great tool for setting up and configuring architecture as code. However, it can be tricky to manage resources that were not created by Terraform. I recently worked on a project where most of our AWS infrastructure had been manually created in the AWS console. When we decided to manage all of our […]

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By: Gage Vander Clay

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