T&S

I love a good bit of linting. But what I don’t love is having to remember 101 (exaggeration maybe) little bits of code to easily navigate my JS environments. Thankfully this is where this blog comes in use!   These snippets are the ones that although simple, always slip my mind. They are not tough, […]

This article provides a template for using React Context and Hooks, with a simple list example. I have laid it out so you can copy and paste, find and replace (I am a poet this morning!). Context is great when props need to be passed up and down component trees. It simplifies the whole process. […]

Here are several git commands I keep having to Google. This is either due to barely using them, or just them not sinking in. Hopefully this list will help you out as well! Create a New Branch and Move into It Very simple, but took me a while to remember! Create a new branch and […]

I have been working with WordPress as a back end CMS (one of the many micro services) and Gatsby to generate the website. To connect the two I am using a WordPress plugin called WP GraphQL, and a Gatsby plugin called Gatsby Source GraphQL. Everything was working brilliantly, apart from being able to use any […]

Developers already have 101 decisions to make, and picking an automation tool is not an easy one. The requirements of a tool can be different depending on the person, the job, and the system you are building. I am hoping I can help make the choice a little easier with this article. I discovered Gulp […]

I have been recently working on a project using user generated poly-lines on maps. I am using Mapbox to render the maps and lines, it is brilliant! However, I needed a simple way of zooming the map to the polyline and the Mapbox example wasn’t working for me. Enter my solution! export default function getPolylineBounds(bounds) […]

Quick note, I love the image for this article. Cheers Pixabay! I have recently cleaned down my system and started re-installing all my essential software/packages for development. This came about after the laptop doing deathly slow, and nothing working properly (love good old bloat). I work with both PHP (WordPress) and JS based (React/Gatsby) builds […]

I have been working on components for Gatsby JS, and including React Hooks. The idea is they will be packaged up separately and pushed to NPM. To make the build easier I house the component in a separate directory and npm link to a Gatsby test site. Everything was going well until I introduced the […]