How to create a React.js app with serverless

"In this example we will look at how to use React.js with a serverless API to create a simple click counter app. We’ll be using the SST and the SST ReactStaticSite construct to deploy our app to AWS. Let’s start by creating an SST app."

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JavaScript Proxy the Fetch API

"If you go on and google search for JavaScript Proxy, you'll see many articles explaining the core concepts. But there is one powerful thing almost nobody tells you about. That one thing is:"

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Pure vs Impure Functions

"Software engineering is full of jargon. Occasionally, to grasp the true meaning of the seemingly simplest of words, one must waddle through many murky layers of complexity (fancy defining this, anyone?). Thankfully, other times, outwardly inaccessible words can be demystified pretty easily."

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Writing value objects in PHP

"If you already have heard about DDD (Domain-Driven Design), you probably also may have heard about Value Objects. It is one of the building blocks introduced by Eric Evans in "the blue book". A value object is a type which wraps data and is distinguishable only by its properties."

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How We Built Eightshift: A Premiere

"It finally happened – eightshift.com is out! Drumroll please. To celebrate this long-time coming event, I will reveal how we brought this beautiful website to life bit by bit."

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WordPress Handbook

"Unit testing is a level of software testing where individual units/components of software are tested. The purpose of unit tests is to validate that each unit of software performs as designed. In terms of PHP and WordPress, a single 'unit' is a function or a class."

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Component Driven User Interfaces

"The development and design practice of building user interfaces with modular components. UIs are built from the “bottom up” starting with basic components then progressively combined to assemble screens. Modern user interfaces are more complicated than ever."

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Open Source GraphQL CDN / Edge Cache with Cloudflare, Fastly, and Fly.io

"We've recently announced that WunderGraph is now fully open source. Today, we'd like to explain how you can leverage our API Developer Framework to add Edge Caching to your GraphQL APIs without locking yourself into a specific vendor. Caching GraphQL on the Edge should be vendor-agnostic."

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Etsy Engineering

"If you’ve ever been shopping online and encountered a message like “1 items added to cart” or even “1 item(s) added to cart,” you’ve been bitten by a pluralization bug. It might have been a little annoying, but you likely shrugged it off and moved on."

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You Can't Buy Integration

"Commercial integration tools are a couple decades old now, but there has been little in the way of overarching architectural principles describing when and how to use them."

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