Building realtime collaborative offline-first apps with React, Redux, PouchDB and WebSockets

tl;dr: remote HTTP APIs enabled the development of native web apps, but they’re not really suited to the real world of mobile users. A sync-capable client-side database…

The Callback Pattern

This is the first article from a new series about Node.js. We begin by covering some basics like asynchronous flow control, modules, event emitters and streams. We then proceed to some more elaborate patterns for providing configuration, networking, asynchronous work distribution and data…

Getting started with React and Node.js

While building client-side apps, a team at Facebook reached a conclusion that a lot of web-developers had already noticed: the DOM is slow. They did, however, tackle this problem in an interesting way.

Building a voucher site

The objective was to develop an HTML embedable widget to facilitate the purchase of voucher codes. The number of screens was under ten with pretty simple interactions. CouchDB was to be used as a UI settings and copy store, to be easily edited.

Enforcing cultural change does not work

Culture is all the rage nowadays. Everyone wants to be the cool kid on the block, and with software engineering talent becoming harder to come by, it makes sense that most companies now strive for this change in culture to provide them with a clear and present…

Docker 1.9

With the advent of Docker 1.9 comes a number of ecosystem milestones. The team has now released production-ready Swarm (to orchestrate container deployment) and multi-host networking (to facilitate communication between containers, even as they move between hosts).