Building on Ethereum: Part 8 – Deployment

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 Read More …

Building on Ethereum: Part 7 – Client to Contract Communications

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 …

Building on Ethereum: Part 6 – Bootstrapping the Client

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 …

Building on Ethereum: Part 2 – Functionality

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 …

Controlling Web Audio With React and Redux Middleware

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 …

Building a React-based Chat Client with Redux

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 …

Testing with Jasmine and Async/Await

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 …

Page Fight

Immerse or Die is a tough-love book review project begun by Canadian author and editor Jefferson Smith. Page Fight, this reader-reaction companion app, is a collaboration between Jefferson and myself. He was the consulting editor for my first novel, and came up with the idea for the project. Together, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about Read More …

Break Free of the Realtime Jail: Audio-modulated HD Video with Three.js

Previously, in the ongoing chronicle of our quest to build a music visualizer for recording artists, I discussed my attempt to render thirty audio-modulated frames per second with Three.js and send them to the server in realtime for compiling into a video. What I discovered was that this is impossible with ordinary hardware, Read More …