Published inLevel Up Coding·PinnedMember-onlyIntroducing React Native WhirlwindA modern approach to styling React Native applications Why another Styling Framework? I’m quite fond of Styled Components for my React web projects as they offer an easy and efficient way of creating fully styled, reusable React components. However, when using React Native, styling suddenly becomes very limited. You can’t style child components or…React Native7 min readReact Native7 min read
Published inBCG Digital Ventures Engineering·PinnedMember-onlyCreating a Release Strategy for Android and iOSBuilding Mobile Apps for Profit — In my career, I have built more than a dozen mobile applications for Android and iOS. Some of them were hobby projects, some of them were commercial products I and my team built for various customers. We built banking applications, personal safety products, multimedia streaming apps, mobile games, and even…Android App Development20 min readAndroid App Development20 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Mar 24, 2022Member-onlyNode.js Packages I Use In Every ProjectAnd why you should use them too! Throughout my career, as probably many of you, I have created dozens of new JavaScript projects both for personal as well as professional use. As with everything, once you do something often enough, you establish common patterns, routines, and best practices. In this…JavaScript8 min readJavaScript8 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Mar 18, 2022Member-onlyA Guide To Application LoggingTips on how to avoid missing the forest for the trees What is application logging? The purpose of logging is to generate a trail of information that will help to understand the route a user or information takes through your application. Logging is, at least in my experience, an underappreciated topic in many projects…JavaScript11 min readJavaScript11 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Jan 20, 2022Member-onlyHow to Mint 100,000 NFTs For FreeProgrammatically upload NFTs to OpenSea.io using JavaScript In the following post, I’ll cover how I used a simple script to programmatically mint a set of unique NFTs on OpenSea.io. Please note that this is merely a proof of concept on how to use dAppeteer/Puppeteer and JavaScript (more specifically TypeScript) to…Nft8 min readNft8 min read
Published inBCG Digital Ventures Engineering·Oct 6, 2020Member-onlyReact.js on AWS Lambda in 15 minutes or LessEditor’s note June 2021: This post was originally published in October 2020 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. AWS Lambda gained a lot of popularity throughout the last few years, with many engineers adopting it to implement microservices and APIs for a fraction of the costs of traditionally…React11 min readReact11 min read
May 25, 2020Scaling React State Management Part 2Or why you might not need Redux — In my previous post Scaling React State Management Part 1, I covered my approach on how to manage application states in React without the need of 3rd party libraries such as Redux. A problem we haven’t solved so far is a common problem when using centralized states in large React…React6 min readReact6 min read
May 23, 2020Scaling React State Management Part 1Or why you might not need Redux — React is relatively barebone — after all it’s intentionally designed as a library, not a framework. A lot of functionality will require you to install 3rd party packages, like routing and theming UI component libraries or build tools. However, state management is not necessarily one of them. While there are…React6 min readReact6 min read
