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Workshop: An exploration of modern web app development with React.js

A few weeks ago MetaLab sponsored and participated in Startup Slam, a one-day event of interactive technical workshops aimed at university students, organized by Sendwithus. We wanted to showcase some of the…

Xcode, Supercharged

As engineers one of the most important things we can do is become accustomed to the tools we use on a daily basis, but we…

A Bird’s Eye View of Functional Programming

What it is, and how it can help

TL;DR

Functional programming (FP) helps you write robust, powerful, and maintainable programs well suited to multicore and cloud computing by focusing…

Better CSS with JavaScript

Learn how to modernize your CSS build using css-js-loader.

Many thanks to Izaak Schroeder for Webpack wizardry and to Mike Gazdag and the rest of the team at MetaLab for their knowledge and feedback. Also, all credit…

Component Brick and Mortar

The React documentation I wish I had a year ago

When I started learning React, I immediately took to its simplicity. One cursory look at the React doc page had me writing my first component. Within a day or two I had a…

ViewBinder for Android in Kotlin

Various projects are starting to use Kotlin as their default language as more people are finding out about it and loving it — and it is still beta (Beta 4 as the time of writing). This just reinforces the good job JetBrains is doing. But I didn’t write this to sell you…

Functional Programming & Elixir — Pt. 1, The Basics

It might be difficult to get into functional programming because of the complexity and the terminology. The goal of these articles is to explain the terminology in a simple manner, reduce the complexity and at the same time, give code samples written in Elixir and show how…