Jul 31, 2021Member-onlyHow to Crush it at Work Without Burning Yourself OutPractical tips for approaching your work with mindfulness, ease, and less anxiety — Work means different things from person to person depending on their life circumstances. To some people, work means their job. To others, work means their family life, caring for loved ones, or struggling with health issues. Regardless of what work means to you, humans follow a similar pattern with their…Mwc Work6 min read
Published in AWS in Plain English·Jun 14, 2021Member-onlyHow to Deploy a Gatsby Site to an S3 BucketA quick guide to deploying a Gatsby site to an S3 website and serve over HTTPS using CloudFront. — In case you aren’t familiar with Gatsby, it is a great tool for building fast and performant websites. It is a static site generator that allows you to build sites using React. …Coffee 20217 min read
Published in AWS in Plain English·Jun 6, 2021Member-onlyUse S3 to Store Images From Your ApplicationA walkthrough of how to use S3 as image storage for a NodeJS/Express application. — If you’ve ever built an application that handles image uploads from users then you are probably aware that at least to start with you can try storing those images in your application’s database. …AWS8 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jan 20, 2021Member-onlyBuild a Blog With Next.JSA quick introduction and guide to building your own blog site with Next.JS — In case you are not familiar with it yet, Next.JS is a popular React framework. This framework allows you to build React applications capable of static site generation and server-side rendering with no configuration required. The major benefit of using static site generation or server-side rendering is that it is…Java Script7 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Dec 14, 2020Member-onlyHow to Build a Real-Time Chat Application with React Hooks and Socket.ioA getting started guide for building real-time applications with React and Socket.io — Some use cases for web applications require real-time updates from the server. One such example is a chat application. If you have multiple users chatting together you could refresh updates from the server, but there is a cleaner solution that will push updates from the server to the UI. Sockets…Java Script4 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Dec 7, 2020Member-onlyHow to Set Up a Deployment Pipeline with React, AWS, and BitbucketA quick guide for setting up a new React project with a pipeline for deployments to an S3/CloudFormation site with HTTPS. — Setting up a new React project isn’t something developers typically do regularly so it’s easy to forget all the steps involved. …Java Script10 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Nov 26, 2020Member-onlyBuild Awesome Map Apps with React Native and MapboxAre you building mobile applications with React Native and want to add map components to your project? Look no further, we will be tackling that topic in this article. We will be walking through an example of building a React Native app with the Mapbox SDK. In case you are…Java Script5 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 18, 2020Member-onlySimple State Management With MobX and ReactA look at how to use MobX to manage state in your React applications. — As React developers we have many options for how to manage state in our applications. …Java Script4 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 16, 2020Member-onlyCreate a REST API With NodeJS and PostgreSQLA guide to set up a simple REST API with NodeJS, Express, and PostgreSQL — Are you curious about how to create an API with NodeJS and PostgreSQL? In this article, I will be walking through an example of how to set up a local PostgreSQL instance and a NodeJS API to create, read, update, and delete data from that database. I have been working…Java Script6 min read
Nov 12, 2020Member-onlyMessage Queues Made Simple with SQS, Lambda, NodeJS, and ServerlessA quick guide to setting up a Lambda function to receive messages from an SQS messaging queue with the Serverless Framework. — Serverless computing is an exciting technology and has many practical applications for building scalable applications in a cloud environment. One extremely practical use case is receiving messages in a messaging queue. …Java Script6 min read
