Wanting to level up with React, Redux, Flow and Router, I found Seed’s Frontend Homework assignment describing the basic frontend to an invoice web app — and thought it was a good problem to experiment with. Below is my linked solution, and commentary on my experience working with those technologies.
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Getting familiar with the React ecosystem
After reading up on React, ES6, JSX, Babel, webpack, yarn, Jest & Enzyme — I put together this Minesweeper prototype to get more limber with execution. Also leveraged TravisCI with auto deploys to GitHub Pages. See the GitHub link below.
JFMK-Auth is an open source, personal web app that securely serves an instance of my demo work portfolio to an authenticated, private audience. While it’s not a new or unique problem, the project gave me a testing ground to work with Rails 5.0 & Docker Compose 3. This post walks…
TLDR; See github.com/jfroom/docker-compose-rails-selenium-example for a fully functional demo, Travis CI integration, and more documentation.
Using Capybara & Selenium to run automated tests in an actual end user browser is a great approach to CI/CD for a Ruby/Rails based web application with JavaScript. However, setting this up on a developer desktop…
TLDR; See github.com/jfroom/docker-compose-rails-selenium-example for a fully functional demo, and more documentation.
When Bundler is involved, keeping a Docker Compose Ruby project’s build times low in a quickly changing, multi-branched development environment is not trivial. A common approach is to call a variation of RUN bundle install in the Dockerfile …
My newer posts will be on Medium. My older weblogs can be found at: jfroom.com/blog.
Why the change? 1) Life is short. 2) Same rationale as DHH’s writeup: ‘Signal v. Noise moves to Medium’.
One of my friends, and favorite developers, that I’ve had the pleasure of working with, and manage work for — is a chap named Brian.
We worked together locally in Chicago for a year. When he decided it was time to move to San Francisco, I was happy that he…
Considering that most working aged adults spend a majority of their waking hours working, I believe it is a personal responsibility to take control of my professional destiny and well-being, insomuch as I have control.
How could something as important as this be left in the hands of anyone else…
