Create test environments in Kubernetes
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Yarn workspaces and mono repos
I currently work in a small startup with two other developers. We have three projects: an API written in Python with the Django web framework, a big React app and a website written with NextJS. All these project are in the same git repository. This allows us to easily share …
Shutdown Kubernetes
It can be a good idea to shutdown part of your infrastructure when you don't need it. It will help you reduce costs and your environmental impact. It is however, not always easy to actually do it.
In this article, I'll talk here about how to shutdown a Kubernetes based …
Testing the re-frame Clojure frontend framework
I wanted to test re-frame a Clojure framework for building user interfaces. It is built on top of Reagent a Clojure library to interface with React in ClojureScript. The main goal of this framework is to help you manage the state of your application. To do that, you need to …
Testing the Svelte JS framework
After hearing good things about the Svelte JS framework, I decided to give it a try. To test it, I did something very original: the classic TODO app. You can see a picture of the end result on the screenshot below.
Here are my impressions after this tests:
- Despite using …
My take on GKE auto-pilot mode
I recently switched from a standard GKE cluster where I had to manage nodes to an autopilot one where Google does it for me. I must say the switch was easy to do (despite an interruption of our services) and greatly simplified the management of the cluster.
I noticed this …
Generate PDF from React components
How do you generate a PDF from any React components? I am not talking about just allowing your users to print a page into a PDF with their browser, I am talking about transforming a page as PDF programmatically and saving it server side. The idea is for our user …
Build a sequence that is reset everyday
How to create a database sequence that will be reset everyday? That is a sequence that will get one the first time of each day? It sounds easy but it's not that much.
Note
This article will focus on PostgreSQL since it's the database I use. A similar solution may …
Make JS code communicate with a ServiceWorker
If you need to send data from your JS code to your ServiceWorker, you can do it like this:
navigator.serviceWorker.register("./sw.js").then(registration => { registration.active.postMessage("Some message"); });
You can then rely on this code in the ServiceWorker to read the message:
self.addEventListener("message", event => { console …
Should you build a SPA?
This article is an update to a previous article why you want to build a SPA which I think was laking some nuance and precision. Reading this article is not required to read this one. I'm writing this update because SPAs are very popular and I recently though more about …