Including Native DLLs in a NuGET Package

On my current project, many of the tools we use are shared across projects. We’ve made good use of Azure DevOps pipelines and private package feeds to easily and automatically publish and share the artifacts. Most of the time, things have worked really smoothly. Until recently, when I had a package that depended on a […]

Docker for Mac: Overcoming Slow Mounted Volumes with Visual Studio Code

A couple of years ago, Will Pleasant-Ryan wrote Docker for Mac: Overcoming Slow Mounted Volumes, describing his desire to use Docker for local development. He talked about some of the filesystem performance problems that can arise when using a shared volume from the host machine on Mac OS X, along with some potential workarounds and […]

Add F# to Your Web App with Fable

I’ve written previously about JavaScript-free web development using F#, but there are other options if you don’t have the luxury of starting a new project with F#. One of those is Fable, which has a pretty low barrier to entry in terms of integration with existing projects.

Server-Side Rendering: Adaptive React Components

In server-side rendering (SSR), the client and server don’t always communicate perfectly. Recently, we faced a bit of a challenge configuring our app to display adaptive React components smoothly.

A Quick Start Guide to Query Strings with React Router

I’ve been working on a project where we wanted to implement a set of filters for a list of records on one page of our React web app and store the selected filters as state in the URL. We chose this approach so we could link directly to the page with specific filters selected. Adding […]

Sharing TypeScript Code Between Web and React Native

We’re building a hybrid mobile app out of an existing web app. The front end will run out of a webview, and we’re adapting the back end to run on-device in [React Native]. One of the challenges we encountered was how to share code between our existing [monorepo] built with [webpack] and our new React […]

Creating a Simple Server with Next.js

It can take a long time to get a full-stack React and Node.js app off the ground. Fortunately, with the addition of API Routes, Next.js offers a way to do that in just minutes.

Use Container Views and ReSwift (Redux) to Reduce ViewController Complexity

Perhaps you have heard of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern in iOS, also known as “Mostly View Controller.” It got this name because, without much effort, your UIViewController code can get very large. In this blog post, I will show you how using container views and ReSwift (a Redux implementation in Swift) can be […]

Set Up an Embedded C Project with Ceedling to Work on CircleCI

Setting up a comprehensive test suite for your embedded project is crucial to its success. Embedded issues are notoriously tricky to debug, and having a test suite complete with unit and integration tests will aid massively in fixing bugs that arise.

Using React Hooks & Context to Avoid Adding Redux Too Early

Many people think of React and Redux as inseparable, despite the Redux author’s own advice to avoid using it “until you have problems with vanilla React.”

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