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If so, are you considering having in-app purchases? That’s going to be a whole bunch of work, I can tell you because I’ve spent the last 6 months writing and testing the contracts and front end to support the functionality. It seemed crazy for every game to build its own system for in-app purchases Read More …
Let’s Build a TouchTone Keypad! If you’ve built React/Redux applications before, you know there is a standard pattern of uni-directional data flow. The UI dispatches an action. A reducer handles the action, returning a new application state. The UI reorganizes itself accordingly. But what if you need a Redux action to trigger 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 …
Let’s build a non-trivial app with React and then refactor it to use Redux! Much of the advice you get regarding the addition of Redux to your React projects is to only do so once they reach a certain size, because of the extra complexity Redux adds. That’s certainly fair. But it will leave Read More …
A few years back, I was consulting for a client who had a Node-based instant messaging feature which had worked pretty well at first. But the number of users grew, and then it didn’t. Even though they had a number of load-balanced server instances running, they found that the Redis database they were using Read More …
SQL. It’s so last century, amirite? Although it was created around ten years earlier, Structured Query Language (SQL) really began to catch hold in the commercial world during the mid-eighties, and brought with it some great improvements over what had come before. Probably the most important feature was transactionality, which enabled concurrency and Read More …
Don’t Worry, You Can Do This The idea of migrating your domains from one registrar to another can be an intimidating one, especially if you have a lot of them. Having personally worked at one of the world’s largest registrars some years ago, and specifically on the DNS provisioning and domain transfer parts, 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 …
If you want to run unit tests against code that manipulates a Firebase database and creates users, there are a few things you’ll need to do first. Regardless of the unit testing framework and how you break down the tests within your test suite(s), you will need to do a few things before you write Read More …