tech/webdev magazine

May 4, 2019

create-react-app v3, What's new?

Saturday, May 04, 2019 Teklinks

When you're looking to setup your React developer environment, create-react-app is one of the go to ways to go about it. This package allows you to do so with minimal configuration as it creates most of the boilerplate code needed to get you up and running.

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May 2, 2019

How to know what to test

Thursday, May 02, 2019 Teklinks

Practical advice to help you determine what to test. Knowing how to test is great and important. I've created a LOT of content that teaches people the fundamentals of testing, how to configure tools, how to write tests for specific scenarios, and so on.

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May 1, 2019

A Software Engineering survival guide

Wednesday, May 01, 2019 Teklinks

The first few years of my career were a time of intense learning. I encountered the realities of being a software engineer and had to acquire many skills that I didn’t know I needed. Looking back, it would sure have been nice to know the things I know now.

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Practical RxJS and Angular

Wednesday, May 01, 2019 Teklinks

Working with RxJS is a little bit like having superpowers: your powers allow you to do extraordinary things, but they’re easy to misuse, and when that happens — it can be quite dangerous!

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Build a Slack App in 10 Minutes with MongoDB Stitch

Wednesday, May 01, 2019 Teklinks

Slack is not only the fastest growing startup in history, but it's also an app by the same name and one of the most popular communication tools in use today. We use it extensively at MongoDB to foster efficient communications between teams and across the company. We're not alone.

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April 30, 2019

Understanding CSS Writing Methodologies

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Teklinks

In this post we’re going to see what CSS writing methodologies are, some well known methodologies, and how they can be useful to us in optimizing our CSS code. Let’s start with the simplest question to get the ball rolling. What is a methodology?

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