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 […]

Remote Pairing with Visual Studio Live Share

A recent project required our team to transfer knowledge of our code base to another remote team. We decided that remote pairing would be the most effective way to do that. Since our project is written in TypeScript and all of us were on board with using Visual Studio Code, we decided to try Visual […]

Creating Amplify Email Campaigns in JavaScript

On my current project, we are using AWS Amplify to manage cloud infrastructure. One of the reasons we’re using Amplify is to send targeted emails to our users through AWS’s analytics tool, Pinpoint. Setting up an email channel through Amplify turned out to require extra work since, at the time of writing this blog post, […]

Creating Custom CloudWatch Alarms for AWS Lambdas

AWS allows you to setup CloudWatch alarms on many performance-related metrics. Doing this for metrics like CPU load or storage use is trivial. However, setting up custom alarms based on events or errors in a log isn’t as straightforward. By the end of this post, you should know how to set up alarms based on […]

Getting Started with WebSockets

WebSockets are a useful tool that allow for two-way communication between a web server and a browser. In this post, I am going to introduce the basics of WebSockets by making a (very) simple chat application using Express, HTML, and vanilla JavaScript.

VS Code vs Spacemacs for TypeScript Development

I have been using Spacemacs as my go-to editor for around two years, and I use it on every project I can. After being assigned to a TypeScript project, I discovered Spacemacs support for TypeScript was lacking compared to Visual Studio Code. I grudgingly accepted that VS Code provided a better development experience and adopted […]

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By: Gage Vander Clay

Author: Gage Vander Clay