Originally published on Medium - 29th October 2019 If you read my previous posts on GraphQL, you’ll know that I’m a fan. I left it at the basics however. So starting with this post, we’ll dive into some of the more advanced parts of GraphQL. And when

Originally posted on Medium - 5th May 2019 So now we’ve seen the server side of things, it’s time to play on the client side. This will be a very basic React application using Apollo as its GraphQL library. Unfortunately there is a lot of boilerplate to get

Originally posted on Medium - 6th May 2019 In part one, we covered how we got here, so how about some code? I’ve picked Go for the code (server side) in this, no particular reason beyond that’s what I’ve been playing with lately (and also to show

Originally posted on Medium - 15th April 2019 You may have heard the term GraphQL doing the rounds over the last couple of years. You may have even heard it’s technology developed by Facebook, but like all new-ish tech, there’s still a lot of mystery surrounding it. So

Originally published on Medium - 27th December 2018 So as a bit of a followup to my PWA article I wrote a while back, I thought I’d do a bit of a write-up on the main part that separates a regular web page from a progressive web app — service

Originally published on Medium - 11th December 2018 Interviews can be intimidating, make no mistake about that. But what are we looking for with the various parts of an interview? I’ll break this into four sections… Culture, Coding Challenge (this isn’t actually done in the interview, but still

Originally posted on Medium - 27th June 2018 - So this prediction didn't age well, we still don't have great PWA support on iOS, and we now have tech like Flutter which is working quite well also. Where have we come from? In the last ten

Originally posted on Medium - 4th April 2018 - Some of the info here (in particular the tooling) is out of date, but it mostly should work. I won’t lie, I love TypeScript. Microsoft, say about them what you wish, but they do know how to support their developers

Originally published on Medium - 3rd April 2018 So I was hit with a revelation recently. I haven’t written a for loop in months. Is this the end of it? Has it been replaced with functions like map, filter and find? Well, no, but definitely a reduced need. Functional

I recently made a links site for my social media, essentially it's my own version of Link tree, something I wanted to do for fun and learning. A simple static page would have sufficed, but where's the fun in that? Since I already use Strapi [https: