Tag: development

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What is Gatsby.js? Good Question. Here’s a Quick Answer.

Gatsby is a React-based, GraphQL powered, static site generator. What does that even mean?  Well, it weaves together the best parts of React, webpack, react-router, GraphQL, and other front-end tools in to one very enjoyable developer experience. Don’t get hung up on the moniker ‘static site generator’.  That term has been around for a while, but Gatsby is far more like a modern front-end framework than a static site generator of old.

You code and develop your site, Gatsby transforms it into a directory with a single HTML file and your static assets. This folder is uploaded to your favorite hosting provider, and voila.
Overall think, part Jekyll, part create-react-app.

Source: What is Gatsby.js | Mediacurrent

Looks like I need to take a peek at Gatsby.js and see what’s going on there. Most intriguing are features to leverage APIs on existing CMS’s to pull the content and display it with a new more modern front-end.

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How to recover dropped data from stash | Opensource.com


First a warning: When you are implementing a big feature, split it in small pieces and commit it regularly. It’s not a good idea to work for a long time without committing your changes.

Source: How to recover dropped data from stash | Opensource.com

Git can save your bacon, but nothing beats applying the “saving frequently and often” approach. Commit frequently and often, stash sparingly, branch as necessary, push always.

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GraphQL | A query language for your API

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

Source: GraphQL | A query language for your API

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From Vagrant to NixOps – Mayflower Blog

NixOps is a cloud deployment tool using nix, the functional package manager for unix systems. Nix makes it very intuitive to define absolute package dependencies. No more thinking and guessing about required runtime dependencies.
NixOps supports deploying to different platforms. Bare-metal, cloud, and even virtual environments like virtualbox work out of the box.

 Mayflower Blog :: https://blog.mayflower.de/5976-From-Vagrant-to-Nixops.html

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Open Data Kit is a tool set for mobile collection of data with server aggregation

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to:

  1. Build a data collection form or survey (XLSForm is recommended for larger forms);
  2. Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and
  3. Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.

In addition to socio-economic and health surveys with GPS locations and images, ODK is being used to create decision support for clinicians and for building multimedia-rich nature mapping tools. See the list available tools, featured deployments, and implementation companies for more examples of what the ODK community is doing.

We welcome and encourage participation from the user community. ODK is supported by a growing community of developers, implementers and users as well as various companies. Core ODK development is supported by ongoing research at the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering and through donations from users.

https://opendatakit.org/

This looks intriguing. There may be some legal tech us for a tool set like this.

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ActiveState: Komodo 10.2 Released! New Unit Testing, Slack Sharing, Yarn Support

The Komodo team has been hard at work, and some of that work you can feast your eyes upon today with the release of Komodo IDE 10.2. This release is focussed primarily on two features: unit testing and Slack sharing, but it’s not just about the features; we’ve fixed roughly 100 bugs and made quite a few improvements and enhancements. We hope you enjoy this iteration of Komodo IDE and look forward to your feedback!

Slack Sharing

If your team lives on Slack, sharing a code snippet is a quick way to get problems solved. Now you can share snippets, diffs and all kinds of code directly from Komodo to your team on Slack. Give your ctrl+c and ctrl+v a break.

Source: ActiveState: Komodo 10.2 Released! New Unit Testing, Slack Sharing, Yarn Support

I’m really looking forward to the Slack sharing feature since I do live in Slack. 🙂

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The Ultimate WordPress Development Environment – wpmudev

Over the past couple of years, I’ve written loads of tutorials here on the WPMU DEV Blog in which I share tidbits about the development environments I use. So today, I thought it’s about time I share a full environment, the kind I would put together and use for larger scale development. Roll up your sleeves and get ready to get your hands dirty! Because below is a full walkthrough of the kind of development environment I set up, and how you do can it, too.

Source: The Ultimate WordPress Development Environment – wpmudev