javascript
5 posts
Getting Started with XState
October 09, 2019 · 4 min readA beginner's guide to XState state machines in React: defining states and transitions, assigning context, and invoking services to call the Rick and Morty API.
Getting Started With GraphQL
July 30, 2019 · 4 min readA beginner's look at GraphQL: building a simple Apollo Server schema with types and resolvers, writing queries, and comparing the approach to REST APIs.
Getting Started with TypeScript and NextJs
April 23, 2019 · 4 min readMy notes on adding TypeScript to a React and Next.js app: variable types, interfaces, tuples, async functions, and the configuration files that make it work.
Getting Started with NextJS, Styled Components and Rebass
April 10, 2019 · 4 min readA walkthrough of a Next.js starter boilerplate that combines Styled Components for CSS-in-JS and Rebass for UI components, and a look at server-side rendering.
Case Study - Web Scrapers
April 01, 2019 · 5 min readAn experiment comparing web scrapers in Node.js, PHP, and Python using Cheerio, Goutte, and BeautifulSoup to pull Dwyane Wade stats from Basketball Reference.