Mauro Centurión·PinnedFixing a table header on a horizontally scrolling tableYou would think this is easy. But it really isn’t. Chapter 0: The environment This entire post is based on a React application, so while it’s not mandatory, it would help if you had at least basic knowledge of React and React Hooks. Chapter 1: The initial problem In a project we’ve been recently working on we faced a…Frontend6 min readFrontend6 min read
Mauro Centurión·Jun 2React generic components are not always betterWhat defines if someone is a "good developer"? Is it someone who pushes changes fast? Is it someone who writes bug-free code? Is it someone who can work an entire feature by themselves? I'm not going to answer that question, because as most of the time, context is key. But…React7 min readReact7 min read
Neocoast·Jul 29, 2022Animations: CSS vs JavaScriptWhy should you choose one or the other? Take a look. Goal The main goal of this article is to make a comparison between CSS and JavaScript in order to create animations, providing pro and cons and when it’s convenient to opt for one approach or the other. …Frontend4 min readFrontend4 min read
Neocoast·Apr 27, 2021Communicating in a Software Development CompanyIntroduction We can all agree that communicating isn’t always easy. Now, how about making it a little harder by managing a group of people who speak different languages, work separately in different projects and when they mean writing they mean writing in code? Bear with me as we get into the…Communication4 min readCommunication4 min read
Nicolas Tinte·Mar 26, 2021Theming Semantic UI with LESS@4 and Webpack@5Introduction Are you using Semantic UI and think the styles are a good foundation but you would like to customize them without adding a lot of new styles to your codebase? That’s what happened to us, and because we don’t use create-react-app to scaffold our projects, their main guide wasn’t useful…React3 min readReact3 min read
Neocoast·Nov 26, 2020Search using geolocations with ElasticsearchIn my last project, we needed to create an engine to search available products within a huge set of products. Those products are available in a certain geographic region with many conditions that must match to be returned as a search result. …Backend3 min readBackend3 min read
Mauro Centurión·Sep 4, 2020Member-onlyUsing Artillery and GitHub actions for automated load testingIntroduction During one of our latest projects, our client told us they would be expecting a specific amount of requests in a short amount of time (think something like 5000 in 10 minutes). Even though the load is not excessive, we decided it would be best to be one hundred percent…Artillery5 min readArtillery5 min read
Nicolas Tinte·Aug 18, 2020Apollo client and React“🚀 A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server” — Apollo Client github repository Why do we need a GraphQL client? As GraphQL backends expose their API over a single HTTP endpoint, we could just use fetch to interact with it. The problem is this doesn’t scale well because we would…React4 min readReact4 min read
Felipe Cabezudo·Jul 13, 2020Member-onlySetting up your first Rails + GraphQL APIIn our previous GraphQL article, we went through the basics and some recommendations on how to use GraphQL. In this new article, we are going to explain how to build a basic GraphQL API using Rails. We will build a basic blog application. Our application will have multiple Users and…GraphQL5 min readGraphQL5 min read
Felipe Cabezudo·Jul 2, 2020Member-onlyIntroduction to GraphQL“GraphQL, despite the name, isn’t simply a query language. It’s a comprehensive solution to the problem of connecting modern apps to services in the cloud. As such, it forms the basis for a new and important layer in the modern application development stack: the data graph. This new layer brings…GraphQL6 min readGraphQL6 min read
