When building a React component, I ran into this error:
Objects are not valid as a React child (found: object with keys... Invariant Violation: Objects are not valid as a React child (found: object ...). If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead....
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The design for a recent project called for the contents of the popover view to be emphasized prominently. Specifically, the design wanted all the views behind the popover to be dimmed.
By default, iOS will put a radial gradient around the popup to draw attention to it, but I needed something more. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can dim not only the view behind the popover, but also the status and navigation bar. Read more on How to Dim the Background of a Popover on iOS…
When developing software, it’s always tough to work with caching. While my team appreciates the efficiencies that Data Loader can provide for applications, we still struggle with the same problems that always come up when caching queries, mainly invalidating caches when a data set has changed. Read more on Managing Data Loaders in Node.js with Shared State…
I frequently troubleshoot SSL/TLS server configurations, X.509 certificates, and other SSL/TLS-related concerns. One of the most useful utilities in my toolbox is OpenSSL. I use it for a huge number of tasks: generating new X.509 certificate signing requests, generating random strings for encryption keys, retrieving server X.509 certificates, testing support SSL/TLS ciphers, etc. Read more on Making Practical Use of OpenSSL’s s_client…
After a long hiatus from Rails, I found myself working in a Rails codebase this week. Here at Atomic, our recent focus has been on the wins provided by our starter kit. I still love Ruby and Rails, but after digging through a well-intentioned codebase, I was reminded how much I dislike Rails magic callbacks. Read more on There Be Dragons: Rails Callbacks and Suppression…
When you first sit down to write a React Native app, you’ll find that after making your first screen, you don’t have an easy way to navigate to another. React Native doesn’t have that functionality built in, but in this post, I’ll outline how to use a library that makes it possible: React Navigation. Read more on An Intro to React Navigation for React Native…
According to documentation for Apollo’s GraphQL-tools:
You don’t need to specify resolvers for every type in your schema. If you don’t specify a resolver, GraphQL.js falls back to a default one…
The documentation goes on to state that the default resolver will look for a property on the parent object with the field name that’s being resolved. If that property is not a function, the value of the property is returned. But if the property does contain a function, then the default resolver calls it, and “passes the query arguments into that function.”
It wasn’t clear to me exactly what this meant, so I did some experimenting. Read more on Understanding the Apollo Default Resolver…
When you create a new project in Xcode, you’re given the option of including two types of tests: Unit Tests and UI Tests. But I’ve often wished that these two weren’t mutually exclusive.
There have been times when I’ve wanted to test UI components in isolation, but I wasn’t sure how feasible it was, or if it even made sense. A similar concept exists in some web frameworks (e.g. component integration tests in Ember or React), but I wanted to try it out in iOS. Read more on UI Unit Testing in Your iOS Project…
It’s well understood that unit tests alone may not be sufficient to release new code with confidence. Integration/functional tests are used to automate testing for workflow regressions. As part of setting up a new Java REST API server, I wanted to embed integration testing into our regular workflow via Gradle. Read more on Adding Integration Tests to Gradle…
My current Android project needs to be backwards-compatible with every Android version back to Android 4.4 (KitKat). Meeting this requirement can be difficult and frustrating for a number of reasons, but with KitKat installed on ~10% of all Android phones worldwide (at the time of this writing), it’s still worth supporting.
One of the issues you’ll run into with any Android app—whether or not you’re supporting older OS versions—is the need to multidex your app. With that being said, there are still a few things to watch out for if you’re going to be multidexing an app that runs against older OS versions. Read more on Supporting Old Android Versions with Multidex…