UIScrollView with Content Layout Guides

UIScrollView has gone through some major improvements. Starting with iOS 11, Apple introduced content and frame layout guides to make it a little less confusing to configure the content inside of your scroll view. Xcode 11 also added these layout guides to interface builder. Today, I’ll show you how to use content and frame layout […]

Firebase with Unity – Part 1: Project Setup

If you are building a Unity application that will require user sign-on, Google’s Firebase is a great option, with Authentication, Database, Storage, Hosting, Functions, and more. Plus it’s fairly easy to get set up! In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to create a Firebase account, register your app, and get your Unity project prepared for […]

Three Reasons to Use Yarn in 2020 (and Beyond)

When Yarn was first released, it was a huge step forward for the JavaScript and NPM community. At the time, NPM did not support deterministic sub-dependency resolution. And Yarn was considerably faster, primarily due to the introduction of an offline cache. These days, however, the gap between Yarn and NPM is much closer. NPM 5 […]

Why & How We’ve Starting Using RailsAdmin Internally

RailsAdmin is an open-source tool for Rails Engine that allows you to manage your data with a user-friendly interface. It’s great for building internal infrastructure because it’s something everyone in the company can use. RailsAdmin is so straightforward, you won’t even have to train users. Here are some of the basic features of RailsAdmin: Display […]

Four Considerations when Managing an AWS VPC

Hosting your cloud infrastructure on AWS in a more protected environment can strengthen the security of your infrastructure. That’s what an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is for. It creates an isolated slice of the cloud within which you have control to manage your own network. But it also means you’re now required to manage […]

Dockerizing an ASP.NET + React App

My team has started working on a new web application, and we’ve been asked to use ASP.NET for the backend. We chose to use React for the frontend because we’ve had significant success with React at Atomic, and we wanted to leverage some existing UI components that were built in React. We try to avoid […]

Setting Up Recurring Push Notifications in React Native

Recurring push notifications in React Native can be a useful tool to send messages to users on a regular schedule. Below is a step-by-step guide to adding this functionality to a React Native app. Note: this tutorial follows steps for react-native >= 0.60. For older versions of React Native, please refer to the individual libraries’ […]

Using Developer Authenticated Identities with Cognito Identity Pools In TypeScript

Cognito identity pools provide an easy way to enable your users to have limited access to your AWS backend. With developer authenticated identities, you can integrate Cognito into your existing authentication process. 1. Create an Identity Pool Go to the Cognito developers console and click “Manage Identity Pools,” then “Create new identity pool.” Name your […]

Making an Angular Directive to Toggle Password Visibility

Often when implementing a password field on a form, you’ll want to add a button to toggle the masking/visibility of that password so the user can see what they’ve typed. In Angular, this can be easily achieved on any input field, thanks to directives. Today we’ll write an attribute directive, which can “change the appearance […]

Scrollable Grid with Just-in-Time Data Loading – Part 1: Using React Window

Say you have thousands (or even just hundreds) of rows of data to render. To provide a good experience for the user, you might not want to fetch all the data at once. Instead, you might want to fetch the first hundred, show those, then fetch the next hundred. Alternatively, you could fetch all the data at […]

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