Dario Ghilardi

What profiling my Universal React-Redux app revealed

My app had no bad symptoms, who knew that it was hiding a secret issue? In this post I show you how I dug into the running application and why you…

End-to-end testing on a React-Redux app

I struggled for some time around the end-to-end testing setup in my React-Redux app. I came out with some ideas and a workflow that I would like to share. Here is…

React and JSS: tips from a one-year journey

More than one year ago we started a new project: a universal SPA based on React and Redux. One of the first choices to make was: “how do we handle…

First steps with Clojurescript

Clojurescript is a compiler for Clojure that targets Javascript. Using Clojurescript you can write your Javascript app in Clojure, taking advantage from functional…

Modules and named functions in Elixir

In every object oriented programming language we model the domain with classes. Every object we generate from our classes is a container of state, represented by your instance variables, and behavior, represented by your methods. But Elixir is a functional…

Immutability in Elixir

It has been said that one of the best way to cement knowledge is to share it with others. To follow that principle I’m starting to share some concepts I’m learning about the Elixir programming language. Coming from OOP, some of these ideas might look strange at the beginning, one of them…