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Published in Indeed Engineering

·Feb 3

Speed Matters, But It Isn’t Everything

Over the last few years at Indeed, we noticed our public-facing web applications were loading more slowly. We tested numerous ways to improve performance. Some were very successful, others were not. We improved loading speeds by 40% but we also learned that speed is not always the most important factor…

Engineering

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Speed Matters, But It Isn’t Everything
Speed Matters, But It Isn’t Everything

Dec 22, 2018

Reviving a Legacy TypeScript Application

Recently I came across a project written in TypeScript that was established in 2014. That’s was only 2 years after the creation of TypeScript, and much, much before it’s increase in popularity. And as such, the project was starting to show it’s age. Some Background When the project began, much of the…

Java Script

2 min read


Mar 1, 2017

Implementing Code Coverage with Webpack v2

Upgrading to webpack v2 should be simple. And for the most part it is; the team has done an amazing job simplifying the exposed API and (more impressively) documenting the changes and providing upgrade paths. It took me about 25 minutes to get one of my projects (which I’ve written…

Java Script

2 min read


Feb 4, 2017

Async JavaScript, there and back again

Async programming in JavaScript has always been a fairly advanced, convoluted, and somewhat annoying concept. I think every JS programmer gets asked more than one async question in an interview. Here’s one of my favorites: var Api = function() { var ret = []; for (var…

Java Script

3 min read


Published in HackerNoon.com

·Feb 3, 2017

Open Sourcing a Redux Component

This is the story all about how I built (with the incalculable help of taco) a React/Redux Grid Component, appropriately (and boringly named) React-Redux-Grid. This is about how we started building a thing, how it changed along the way, the things we messed up, the things we learned, the things…

React

12 min read

Open Sourcing a Redux Component
Open Sourcing a Redux Component
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