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It’s 2021, and You Should Switch to Yarn 2

On its initial release, taking a wait-and-see approach with Yarn 2 may have been the correct call, but in 2021, it's time to reconsider that decision.

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What Console.Log Really Prints

The browser doesn't evaluate objects right when we print them. Instead, console.log evaluates only one level when printing.

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Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL

It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

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Mithril.js – The Smallest, Fastest SPA Framework You’ve Never Used

Mithril's strengths mirror React's weaknesses. It's fast, comes with simple utilities, and offers a very concise API for a SPA framework.

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Reading and Writing a Private Google Sheet Programmatically

Apps that use Google Sheets need to authenticate themselves to the API. I needed a non-human to prove that it was allowed to read/modify a private Google Sheet.

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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.

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How to Use a List of Results from One Splunk Panel in Another

Setting and using tokens in Splunk is generally straightforward. But what if you want to use a list of results from one panel in another panel?

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Scrollable Grid with Just-in-Time Data Loading – Part 5: Hooking Up the Database

How to update our GraphQL resolver to query our database, creating a truly full-stack implementation of just-in-time data loading.

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The Single-Valued Type Pattern for TypeScript

Want flexible, extensible APIs that can work with a many concrete types at runtime? Use this pattern to create APIs that are precisely typed and flexible.

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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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Getting Create React App & Express to Share Code Without Ejecting (Using Webpack & Typescript)

How to share code between a Create React App front end and an Express back end without ejecting or modifying react-scripts (using Webpack & Typescript).

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Scrollable Grid with Just-in-Time Data Loading – Part 4: Fetching Data with Apollo Client and GraphQL

How to use Apollo Client to fetch data in batches from a GraphQL endpoint and hook that data up to Infinite Loader.

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