I like playing with and testing latest libraries in my projects. That’s the part of our job as Software Engineers to keep learning, discover new things and ways in which we could improve our work and final products delivered. This time I spent half of ... more
In the first part of this article we’ve been focusing on debugging React Native apps through React Native Debugger, Chrome or other tools which main goal was displaying the output of Javascript console and inspecting variable contents. This part will ... more
Chat bots became very popular with a Slack’s massive success, then Facebook introduced their Messenger platform with Chat bots. Now Google is doing the same with the most recent release of their Hangouts Chat, which also supports bots. Hangouts, primarily ... more
In this article I’ll show you tools and processes I’ve been using along my React Native journey, that helped me produce good quality code and address problems quickly. Despite the developers world is generally speaking binary – all the programs we write ... more
Nowadays web development heavily focuses on constantly improving user experience, while websites are being more beautiful and interactive. One of the ways to display additional information or guide user through the browsing journey are tooltips. Most ... more
Google tends to dominate our lives by offering services we use on the daily basis in home and work. E-mail, calendar, contacts, everything is in their hands. With creation of Android they also got into our pockets. It also affects professionally used ... more
Expo claims to be the fastest way to build an app. In conjunction with React Native’s flexibility and extensibility it creates a great toolkit for mobile app developers. In the one of the previous articles I have answered the question “Why is React Native ... more
JavaScript Rising Stars – you’ve probably heard about it before. It’s been very popular on twitter recently. However now, after a few weeks from the publication it’s worth summarizing and rethinking in which direction JavaScript world is heading to. ... more
In the world dominated by Bootstrap, surrounded by Semantic UI and Foundation, it’s hard for alternatives to break through. However the mentioned trio is well known, mature and exist on the market for quite long now, they’re all relatively heavy and ... more
Developing and building our client-side apps has never been easier. NPM and it’s registry is giving us an access to thousands of thousands of packages. Installing them and attaching to the project is super easy today, but it has one major disadvantage: ... more
NestJS is a server-side (backend) application framework beautifully crafted to support developers productivity and make their lives happier. Well, it’s not only a framework, it’s an enabler of entering the world of advanced engineering concepts such ... more
Going for an in interview is not always a pleasant thing. It can be stressful and it often is. Taking the right steps in advance allows you to reduce stress and raise your level of self-confidence. A thing to remember is that the person who’s interviewing ... more
It was a good year. Hoping for the 2018 to be better. I am writing this review to help me check the progress and observe changes in my mindset and view on the outside world. Career changes 2017 has bring a bit too much changes than I have expected it ... more
So you are starting a new project. A beautiful, shiny, greenfield app with all the latest cool tech, with an objective in mind to conquer the industry. You have the mockups and MVP planned already, and the team waiting for your signal to deliver. You ... more
PhoneGap, Ionic Framework, Xamarin. All of these have been on the native development market quite long now, but only Facebook with its React Native had turned the world upside down. Well, it didn’t happen overnight – the framework has been around for ... more
ArangoDB is a NoSQL database engine that supports three common data models: graphs, JSON documents and key/value store. You can use them all or just a single one, all easily accessible via very powerful query language. It runs on almost every environment ... more