First of all, let me explain why I decided to read through this book in the first place. As someone who’s been programming pretty much exclusively in Java and Javascript for the past couple years at my job, I decided... Read more
In this tutorial we’ll be building a very simple mini blog app. Rather than building a single page app for the UI that sends requests to a RESTful back end, we’ll be generating dynamic views on the server with Thymeleaf... Read more
Up until now, any Javascript development that I’ve worked on involving Redux has also involved using React. In fact, most of the Redux examples that I’ve seen on the web also use some sort of front end framework or library... Read more
Why Redux? The real benefits of using Redux weren’t incredibly obvious to me when I first started building interfaces with it. I didn’t see the point of having to touch three separate files to send an API request, handle a... Read more
Caching can go a long way towards improving the performance of any web app, and Rails apps are no exception. Ever since Twitter publicly announced they had replaced their Ruby on Rails search architecture with Scala back in 2011, the... Read more
As far as NoSql databases go, MongoDB is one of the most popular and recognizable options out there. It’s been widely adopted in the Node JS community as the data store for the popular MEAN stack. As a document based... Read more
There are plenty of tutorials around the web that show you how to set up user authentication in Meteor. Most of these tutorials are using accounts-ui to quickly set up authentication in your views. While this can be very useful... Read more