Uclusion is a single page app (SPA), which means the browser doesn’t see very many navigation events while the user is going about their business. Service workers, by default, have the rule that only pages loaded by a service worker will handle their requests via…

Uclusion usually avoids creating our own way of doing things but for React navigation we need absolute control of what was loaded and what not. Out of the box navigation solutions tend to remove from the DOM all but the current page — see for instance…

Uclusion is built on a relatively pure AWS stack and uses Cognito and Amplify Auth for user authentication.

If you are too, and want to enable login with GitHub here’s how you do it.

Uclusion makes extensive use of AWS Amplify Hub to allow components to subscribe to data change events. In Hub it’s really easy to create listeners :

Hub.listen('MY_CHANNEL', (data) => {
  const { payload } = data;
  // do something…

Designing SaaS Rest APIs for web clients

For a typical browser IndexedDB storage gives you access to as much as half the free disk…

Wizards aren’t just for Hogwarts

Uclusion, like any full featured app, needs a way to introduce concepts and workflows to new users. A…

Uclusion’s back end is built entirely on AWS Lambda, which means we don’t have big beefy servers waiting around to service file upload requests. This presents a few challenges,

Uclusion had what should have been a simple problem. We needed to deploy our Lambda, DynamoDB and React based application to dev, stage and production environments without owning a lot of our own code to do so. The code is spread…