These days increasingly more functionality is being moved from backend to frontend. React, Angular and Vue have massively grown in popularity. With them — so have Frontend state management solutions like Flux, Redux, Recoil, etc. Using state management solutions is easy. However, architecting a good state-structure is not as trivial…

Operational excellence — Disclaimer I work in the AWS CloudWatch UI team. This article is my personal opinion and experience. It does not reflect the views of Amazon. Introduction Have you ever ridden a car? Have you noticed all the gauges on the panel under the driving wheel? It has information on the current speed…

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion. It is very opinionated. Use your own judgment. These days the Frontend ecosystem is evolving on a day-to-day basis. New frameworks are released, new build tools, new approaches are becoming popular and old technology is getting deprecated. Just recently everyone was using tslint, but…

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion. It is very opinionated. Use your own judgment. In the past couple of years, the frontend ecosystem has exploded with various frameworks and tools. Currently, it’s a norm to move to a different toolset every 4 years. For example, gulp/grunt -> Webpack -> packer…

Ever wanted to receive an email straight after a 500 error occurs in your Laravel or OctoberCMS website? This little code snippet does just…

RainLab Translate plugin is great for localizing various strings and dynamic input fields, but sometimes the basic functionality just isn't enough. For example, this plugin does provide translations of some more advanced, dynamic strings. One of which is the title meta tag. <title>Hello World || CMS Suffix</title> The solution to…

Using backend forms in a frontend component OctoberCMS is a nice CMS with which developers can build simple sites extremely fast. If you don’t know what it is, you are welcome to check it out by clicking here. Even though I really enjoy using OctoberCMS, some tasks on it are just daunting. One of them is: How…