Co-authored by Erik Slack We are Erik Slack and Michael Madsen. We chose to co-author this article because we each have a lot to add to this topic. We also both feel like Nx DevTools significantly improves the Angular development experience, and we’re frequently recommending it to other developers. Pre-Nx Angular Development When…

The term fail fast gets thrown around a lot. It’s good council. The problem is that most people don’t know how to fail fast effectively, or even why they should fail fast. …

When talking about automated testing we often look to the testing pyramid for guidance. The testing pyramid is a visual that shows us, roughly, the distribution of different kinds of tests in our testing suites.

In my last article, I introduced the concept of Reactive Responsive Design (a term created by me), what it is, how it works, and why it’s important. Now let’s take a look at how we can use it to build a responsive UI. To start we need a service. The…

Reactive Responsive Design is a term I coined to describe a new paradigm for front-end design. It’s rooted in responsive design and builds into it the principles of reactive programming with RxJS. What we get in return for this is a cleaner, more maintainable, more flexible, and more testable app. …

This article was authored by Victoria Koh for the Wootric blog. At Wootric, we’ve gotten quite a few requests from customers who’ve built their app using the Ionic Framework to test our web SDK with the framework. Here’s how we did it. Before we begin, ensure that you have Cordova…

by German Monfort (@gmonfort) and Prabhat Jha (@prabhatjha) We recently moved our main production SQL database from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS. We hope that our approach, outlined below, can serve as a guideline for others. Why Migrate: Cost and Control Before we go into details, the primary reasons for the migration were cost and…

TLDR: Our partner Stitch enables our customers to automatically import their Wootric data into Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Postgres data warehouses. Their open source Singer project means that you can use the integration even if you’re not a Stitch customer. This article was authored by Lisa Abbot for the…

This article was authored by Marin Alcaraz for the Wootric blog and published on February 9, 2017 The Rails core team takes security very seriously which means that we have a great foundation to build our apps on. Thanks to them, we didn’t need to focus on security vulnerabilities in…