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O for Open/Closed Principle

May 14, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

You should be able to extend the behavior of a system without having to modify that system. Robert C. Martin Welcome back to the series on …

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S for Single Responsibility Principle

May 7, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

A class should have only one reason to change. Robert C. Martin I'm going to start a five blog post journey about the five principles …

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What IDE Do You Use?

April 23, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

I'm curious to know what IDEs people out there use. But before anyone tell me what their IDE of choice is, I'll give you mine and how I …

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Using Swagger to Auto Generate Your JSON Objects

March 26, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

The title is a lie. You need Swagger to be able to generate your JSON objects, but it's not what will generate your objects. At Agoda, we …

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Using React-Redux-Forms

February 26, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

The main reason you could say we moved to Redux was validation. We didn't want to add a whole lot of code to our page components to validate …

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Migrating to React-Redux

February 19, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

You don't need Redux Repeat after me, "I don't need Redux". Seriously, you probably don't. We didn't need Redux in our SPA until we started …

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Jest, React, and Mocking

February 12, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

Are you stuck with Proxyquire or Sinon? Before we moved to Jest, we used Karma with Mocha/Chai. These come with no built-in mocking …

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Starting with React

February 5, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

This isn't meant to be a guide on how-to React. I just want to share some of what I've learnt during my time working on a Single Page App …

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Alex is an AVP of Engineering currently working at Bukalapak. He is a leader in full-stack technologies. Read More…

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