Three Methods for Solving Android Data Binding Errors

Trying to figure out what is causing data binding errors when you compile your Android project? This post will save you a lot of time and frustration. There is nothing worse than the compiler telling you something’s wrong in your project but not telling you where. If you are getting cryptic errors like error: cannot […]

Substates – Adding Loading and Error Screens in Your Ember Application

On my current project, I was tasked with implementing loading screens in our application. As it turns out, Ember has a built-in way of showing loading templates to the user! This built-in mechanism exists through what Ember calls substates. Let’s take a look at what these substates are and how you might use them.

Making Development with PowerShell More Hospitable

As generalists, we can and do work across many platforms and frameworks. But that doesn’t mean that we’re immediately comfortable when we have to pack up and move from the platform we typically call home, where we’ve got things arranged just the way we like it. When moving from a Unix-like platform to Windows, things […]

Why Flutter Might Be the Best of Both Worlds

A little more than a year ago, I started working on my first project with native mobile applications. It has been wonderful learning the intricacies of the iOS and Android platforms, but I’ve noticed how cumbersome it is for a team to maintain two versions of the same application. It takes quite a bit of […]

Creating Material Design Chips in an Android App

Material Design was introduced by Google in 2014 as a visual language to create a universal design and style guide for applications. Along with Material Design, new widgets and controls were added to match the new styling. One of these elements is the chip. Chips function like buttons that can either be checked or toggled. […]

Intuitive React Integer Input

Input fields are some of the most fundamental aspects of any application, and front-end validation is expected these days. Unfortunately, doing even simple validation is often more complicated than many clients expect.

Enforcing Compile-Time Permission Checking with TypeScript Brands

Most applications with user accounts will need to do permission checking. Of course, it’s important to include all of the appropriate testing to ensure that only users with the correct permissions can perform certain actions. But what if we also had a way to explicitly tell anyone making calls to restricted functions that a particular […]

Getting Started with Chart.js – The Easy, Beautiful Way to Chart

Chart.js is a JavaScript tool which allows you to generate charts for a webpage. It is an approachable way to create beautiful charts with little effort. Due to the good examples and solid documentation, it won’t take long to get your data on the page.

Discriminated Unions in GraphQL and TypeScript

Both GraphQL and TypeScript support the concept of discriminated unions (also known as tagged unions). In this post, I’ll walk through setting up an example GraphQL schema and the corresponding TypeScript types, along with writing a query to retrieve a union type.

Testing Strategies in the Atomic TypeScript Stack

For the last few years, we’ve been using a universal TypeScript platform including TypeScript, GraphQL, React, and Express. Having TypeScript on both the client and the server (including command-line utilities and background worker processes) has transformed how we go about ensuring the quality of the software we build. When compared to other stacks we’ve used, […]

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