curlers and headers — Following hot on the heels of my previous article about creating a JSON Feed newsreader with FileMaker, this post looks at how to enhance that solution by implementing an HTTP Conditional Get — to ensure that the feed is only retrieved if it has changed since the last time. Solution file I’ve…

the joy of json — A couple of weeks ago, Brent Simmons and Manton Reece announced the release of JSON Feed. This is a specification for a news feed format in JSON. Wheel recast I can hear you now. A new news feed specification? You cannot be serious! …

the state I am in — Vuex is the official Vuejs library for managing application state. It borrows heavily from the concepts of Flux, implementing the same uni-directional data flow approach that I find works so well. The diagram below, slightly simplified from one of Vuex’s own, shows the basic data flow involved.

route with a vue — A router is a key component of most non-trivial javascript front-ends. In Vuejs, the router is not part of the core framework, but is split out into a plugin called vue-router. Vue-router is published by the vuejs organisation, so it’s an official plugin and thus, not surprisingly, it is very…

finding the right slot — I’ve been taking a look at vue.js recently. It has many similarities to react, but I find it more accessible — i.e. easier to learn. And the separation of html into templates gives it that familiar and comfortable feeling that I often yearn for. Vue.js also has an optional plugin…

the cerebral router — routing redux With a remarkable display of my fabled good timing, just as I hit the publish button on my original article on Cerebral routing, the Cerebral team released a refresh of their excellent framework and website! Although the concepts are very much the same, this is a re-issue of the article…

the cerebral router — I always enjoy evaluating new JavaScript frameworks. The plethora of different ideas can be frustrating in terms of agreeing a direction and getting on with the real work — but as a purely academic pursuit it’s great fun!! Cerebral is one of the frameworks that I have recently been following…

anatomy of a query — This is the second in a series of articles about using Om Next to re-create the flux-chat example provided by Facebook to demonstrate their Flux framework for building user interfaces with React. In the first post, we looked at normalization of application state data in Om Next. Moving on from…

get in there my son! — It’s hard to work out where to start with Om Next. The docs are starting to build up nicely but it’s still a steep learning curve, or at least it was for me! Application state is held in a global atom in Om Next. When you load your app, typically…