The BlaBlaCar teams in charge of our user-facing web application recently started a big architecture initiative: it’s time to rely a little bit less on React, leaving behind Redux and the files structure we put in place a few years ago for our Single Page Application (SPA). We’re designing the…

Taking the time to separate the State, the Store and the Workflow in frontend codebase For the last two years my team has been continuously refactoring a large legacy app. …

In a previous article we shared how we use opaque and sum types to model a new domain in Typescript. We built a simple way to write a robust and maintainable domain (in the sense of Domain Driven Design), providing a clean and readable basis to build from further down…

Working on a new feature implies working on modeling the data that comes with it. This step provides a clean and readable basis to build from further down the line. Because of this we are putting a larger emphasis on making sure our model is as robust and maintainable as…

New features are unsurprisingly important for iAdvize. Our business relies on the tech team’s ability to develop and implement new features in as short a time as possible. Those will however be challenging, create bugs and they will need to integrate within a sometimes perilous existing code base. …

And how you can use it too — I am a french Computer Science student at Polytech Nantes, the graduate school of engineering of the University of Nantes, in France. Currently in my 4th year of studies, I have a strong passion for web development, data and AI. This summer I have the opportunity to do a 3-month…

Learn to stay organized by using Trello as your memorising tool — I am a French Computer Science student at Polytech Nantes, the graduate school of engineering of the University of Nantes, in France. Friends and students often ask me to explain how I manage my time and what I do — because, yes, it looks a bit unusual for a 21-year-old…