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Practical guide to build Serverless applications with Netlify and React.js

Serverless technology is taking over the back-end development world. Some businesses are already dumping microservices infrastructure and switching to serverless. However, the learning curve for serverless is pretty steep and it comes with great complexity. Netlify is trying to solve that problem by providing create & drop functions. In this article, we learn about the main concepts of serverless technology

Matt OBrien May 28, 2019

Intro to Processing: Creating Colorful Brush Strokes

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to create art and games with programming, you might have heard of Processing. Processing is a kind of coding sketchbook, used by programmers and artists alike. By using basic programming concepts, you can create beautiful visuals, games, and animations. It also can be used with different languages — you can use their own Java-based

Matt OBrien May 26, 2019

Exploring React Native

In the previous article, titled “Getting Started with React Native”, we briefly went over what React Native is. We went through the installation process for the Expo CLI and the React Native CLI. The last thing we did was create an Expo and React Native project and made changes to the code, then run the projects. But at the end

Jaime Betancourt May 24, 2019

Getting Started With React Native

React Native In this article you will learn how to set up your computer to begin developing apps using React Native. Before we begin, what is React Native? As stated on the official React Native website, http://facebook.github.io/react-native/, “React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile

Jaime Betancourt May 20, 2019

What are React Hooks and why you should care about them – Part 2

Required version of React: 16.8+ What are React Hooks and why you should care about them – Part 1 Outline Context Hook Custom Hooks Important Rules with Hooks Sample application In the first part of the blog, we discussed the main concepts of React Hooks and the reasons for using them. We compared the traditional ways of creating components and

Matt OBrien May 13, 2019

What are React Hooks and why you should care about them – Part 1

Required version of React: 16.8+ What are React Hooks and why you should care about them – Part 2 Outline Intro What is wrong with React Components now? Hooks overview useState useEffect TLDR Intro There is a new kid on the block . React introduced a new feature called Hooks which will improve the code quality even more and make creating

Matt OBrien May 13, 2019

How To Build a Serverless React.js Application with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, & DynamoDB – Part 4

Part 4 : Code Review, Deploy, & Configure an effective CI/CD Pipeline on AWS This is a continuation of our multi-part series on building a simple web application on AWS using AWS Lambda and the ServerlessFramework. You can review the first, second, and third parts of this series starting with the setup of your localenvironment at: How To SetUp Your local Serverless Environment How To Configure Your

David Lopez April 9, 2019

How To Build a Serverless React.js Application with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, & DynamoDB – Part 3

How To Configure Infrastructure As Code, Mock Services, & Unit Testing This is a continuation of our multi-part series on building a simple web application on AWS using AWS Lambda and the ServerlessFramework. You can review the first and second parts of this series starting with the setup of your localenvironment at: How To SetUp Your local Serverless Environment How To Configure Your Serverless Backend API You

David Lopez April 9, 2019

How To Build a Serverless React.js Application with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, & DynamoDB – Part 2

How To Configure your Serverless Backend on AWS This is a continuation of our multi-part series on building a simple web application on AWS using AWS Lambda and the ServerlessFramework. You can review the first part of this series starting with the setup of your local environment at: How To SetUp Your local Serverless Environment You can also clone a sample of the application we will be

David Lopez April 9, 2019

How To Build a Serverless React.js Application with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, & DynamoDB – Part 1

We did not hurt, injur, or maim any animals or ponies throughout the making of this tutorial. We completed all our heroic action sequences in CGI. Furthermore, we are not liable for what you build after learning how to be a Ninja. Never go Full Ulbricht. How To SetUp Your local Serverless Environment You can clone a sample of the application we

David Lopez April 9, 2019