When you’re deserializing JSON there are things you need to pay attention to that may not be obvious at first. Additional security and debugging capabilities for your team are things they will appreciate. In this blog post, I will compare 3 libraries that can help you find the sweet spot…

Why the new Gatsby-Plugin-Image is so amazing and why you should be using it. If you’re looking into finding your ideal CMS for your next blog site, look no further. It works perfectly with Gatsby.js (which doesn’t need an introduction anymore) and is called Contentful. If you’ve worked with React, you’ll know that you can use imports to import images from a specific folder…

Introduction Something that was added to ES6 and you’ve probably been using for a while now are template literals. In this blog post, I’m going to show you how you can use tagged template literals to step up the way you write formatted text. If you’re knowledgeable with template literals, feel…

There are multiple reasons why you should take care of your Flask application — In the past two years, I’ve gotten to know the ins and outs of Flask. Flask is a very flexible Python backend framework that has lots of libraries that can be plugged into your code base without much hassle. When writing an application, you’ll run into issues that you’ll have…

Visualize anything you dream of using the power of JavaScript — D3, short for Data-Driven Documents, is a JavaScript library that makes it possible to display data in a multitude of ways and helps with inspection and manipulation of the DOM. Although you may think it is, D3 is not a charting library. It offers much more flexibility, which is leveraged…

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of Medium posts proclaiming to hold the secrets to being a good programmer. These articles often claim that using ‘ES6 functions’ is simply better and that, unless you’re using these, you’re not a “master JavaScript developer”. I believe that using ES6 functions without thinking about…

Learn everything there is to know about destructuring arrays and objects in ES6 — Moving From ES5 to ES6 Object and array destructuring is something that we’ve been using for a while now. We may have taken it for granted because in ES5 we needed to do something like this when we wanted to assign object properties to external variables: function foo(){ return {a:1, b:2, c:3}; } var tmp…

“To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion” — Stephen Hawking Recursion has many pitfalls. Most JavaScript developers don’t even think about using it until they encounter a specific problem. Recursive functions get little attention, especially in JavaScript because of some big performance limitations. In this article, I’ll go over…

3 monitoring techniques you should consider — Monitoring an application is something about which countless books have been written and rewritten. I’ve personally worked as an enterprise-level software consultant where we monitored everything. Earlier this year, however, I switched to a startup where there was no monitoring except for some sanity checks done after each deployment. …