We code the web

Why We code the web is now statically generated

In case you haven’t noticed. We code the web had a big makeover. It’s not just the outside. Under the hood it is completely new. I moved away from Wordpress and it is now a plain old static HTML website, or is it?

React inline styles with Radium & TinyColor

CSS is an old standard. It’s pretty basic and there are currently a lot of alternatives for styling web applications. Of course we have the pre-processors like LESS and SASS. CSS Modules is also a nice one which I’ll probably cover in another post. In the end they all output plain CSS again, but ah well, what other options do you have? What about inline styles? In Javascript.. WHAT?!

React 0.14's coolest feature: function components

React 0.14 introduced some cool additions, one of them is a more simple way to create components. This is one of those nifty little features that makes developers happy :-).

Functionally managing state with Redux

The Flux application design pattern is still going strong and gaining popularity. There are countless libraries around, helping you implement Flux. But lately, one has been standing out.

Unit testing asynchronous Angular services

Angular is built to be testable. But when I tried to test an Angular service that had a dependency on another service ánd communicated asynchronously with it, I faced a bit of a challenge.

Automating FTP deployment with Travis CI and Gulp

Continuous integration is an important subject, I cannot think of a development world without it. There are a lot of options for CI, but Travis is a nice and simple one. For personal projects it’s free with unlimited repo’s, perfect! However, it requires you to code your own build script. I had some trouble figuring out a good way to do FTP deployments. So, how do you upload files to FTP servers with Travis?

Flux, what and why?

If you are into front-end development, you’ve probably heard or read the term ‘Flux’. What does it mean and why should you care?

Meta programming with ES6 Proxies

Proxies are one of the lesser known functionalities in EcmaScript 6. This is for a reason, they will probably not become your staple exercise in coding Javascript applications. But they are quite cool!