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Using Dynamic Anchor Links in React Markdown

My development team's project is currently using Contentful to manage site content. One hiccup we had to deal with is dynamically creating anchor tags.

Developer Tools

How to Log in PHP

It took a bit to find the best way to console log while running php in Valet. Here are a couple of techniques that helped me debug locally with PHP Laravel.

Developer Tools

Mocking Multiple Queries for Mock Provider

When testing Apollo and GraphQL, Mock Provider is a nice tool to use when components need to communicate with a GraphQL server.

Development Practices

How to Implement Custom Mapping of Form Fields to DocuSign

Recently, my team figured out how to map form fields directly to DocuSign SDK. Here’s how we are utilizing the two tools.

Platforms & Languages

Prisma Migration on Heroku and NodeJS

Prisma migrations are simple for local development, but what about staging and production on Heroku? Here are three ways to run Prisma migrations on Heroku.

Developer Tools

Setting up Microsoft Graph API in Node

In getting the authentication setup for Microsoft Azure in Node, we can take advantage of the Graph API in the background of any app.

Development Practices

Configuring Redis TLS

With Redis 6 now having built-in TLS support and Heroku with optional support for Hobby-dev tier, it's time to utilize TLS with minimal effort.

Developer Tools

Discord for Work? Yes!

Discord has the flexibility to make frequent virtual pairing sustainable. Our project setup over Discord is helping our team reach the finish line strong.

Developer Tools

How to Parse and Annotate PDFs in Node

Many libraries make it easy to draw on and annotate PDFs. Here are several tools that were useful for me in modifying PDFs.

Extracurricular Activities

How to Traverse Through a Word Doc’s Footnotes/Endnotes with Visual Basic

This code easily saved me hours, and I hope it saves other writers time when they need to search and log all of their footnotes or endnotes!

Web Apps

Drawing Thousands of Polylines via Google Maps API V3

How we used filters and zoom-level logic to reduce memory usage and plot routes across the United States involving over 500,000 polylines via Google Maps API v3.

Web Apps

Unit Testing Google Maps API with Jest

To isolate our functions for testing, we needed to create some mocks for Google Maps API. We chose Jest for its ease of use and because there's a handy Jest-Junit reporter that cre

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