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In this series, I’m discussing the phases of a project encompassing a non-trivial set of Ethereum smart contracts and the React/Redux application that communicates with them. The project, called In-App Pro Shop, aims to help Ethereum developers easily support in-app purchases as ERC-721 Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs). Part 1 – Decisions Part 2 – Functionality Part 3 – Setup and Read More …
Most everyone agrees that defining constants for your Redux action types is good idea. If you use string literals, it’s all too easy to misspell one and wonder why your reducer isn’t responding. If you use a constant, your IDE can point out that gaffe right away. Declaring Action Type Constants The Read More …
Entities are the crown jewels of any application. All of those thousands of lines of client and server code have but one purpose: To persist, present, and allow the user to manipulate instances of domain model entities. Give your entities the respect they deserve. Once you’ve worked out what they are for your domain, building and Read More …
In Firebase, Google’s ‘NoSQL’ database, you can declare indexing by any of a node’s children in order to optimize retrieval by that field. For instance, under a node called ‘artists’ where the keys are the artist’s ‘uid’ and the values are artist objects, the default indexing is by uid. While you could retrieve the Read More …
Today, I wanted to write some integration tests against a Firebase database using Jasmine. Connecting to Firebase from Node is just as easy as it is from a browser. I’ve done it before on a previous version of the Firebase SDK, so I didn’t expect a lot of problems there. It was really Read More …