Preventing a user from accessing some parts of an application is a common use case on the Web. With React and the SPA (Single Page Application) pattern, you have to deal with it twice: from the API side and from the frontend side. …

react-mapbox-wrapper Mapbox GL Javascript wrapper for ReactJSwww.npmjs.com Motivation 🤓 At MeilleursAgents, we use a lot of maps to display real estate prices and market activity in a meaningful way for our users. We first used Google Maps and then decided to move to Mapbox because of the sudden price increase last May, making an opportunity from necessity. After a…

In our previous article, we have seen how to automate basics actions with a simple hook. We’re now diving into a more complex use-case of hooks: the pre-commit we use at MeilleursAgents Goal JavaScript in 2018 is a set of frameworks, tools and best practices. It can be hard to remember…

At MeilleursAgents, we follow the GitFlow principles to create “features” or “fixes” branches. We also have a set of guidelines for using git in a frictionless way, and one of them is to prepend every commit message with the JIRA's identifier, in the form of [PROJECT]-[NUMBER]. In order to fullfil…

If you’re not a vim user, you work mostly with a local version of your code. And sometimes, you can’t run your project locally (large and/or confidential data, os-specific binary, security concerns, etc.). In this case, you have to synchronize your local folder to a remote one. TL; DR …