The last year has been one hell of a year for me.
After 8 years of full time iOS development and 11 years of developing for Apple devices, I decided to move on to something new, that I have been planning for longer that I was willing to admit.
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When webpack 4.0 came out, I decided to migrate my codebase implementing webpack for the frontend to webpack 4.0.
One thing I hadn’t invested time to do however, is to enable HMR in my backend code. I have a project that takes approx 30 seconds to start up, mainly because of babel transpiling my whole codebase on memory before running my server, which takes a lot of time and resources. In production, I was using babel-node to transpile my entire code before actually running the backend server.
I decided to use webpack for my backend server and I achieved to speed up compilation by 40x.
I have to admit that I love React & React Native. I began using React in 2014, and React Native in 2016. I loved RN not because of its cross-platform mechanics, but for its pragmatic approach when designing user interfaces and its ability to componentize a screen. A component can have its own state, and if the state is mutated the user interface depending on this exact state will re-render to reflect the new values.
It speeds up development and also makes the developer to avoid bugs with states not reflecting the values. The majority of my time is spent developing native apps, for which I had been trying to find an equivalent to React Native in terms of practices, to no avail. Until I stumbled upon AsyncDisplayKit (now named “Texture”).
I though I should share my experience so far.
There are some among us who just can’t sit tight, and feel the urge to create something on their own.
Most of the time this ‘something’ will end up never seeing the light of day. It has happened to me, I assume that this is the case for everyone else. This happens mostly because of lack of direction, lack of concentration, losing trust that you are going to finish your project.
Here are some tips that have helped me concentrating and managing my day in a way that feels more productive.
Back when NodeJS was in the mid 10.x, a client of mine had an idea of a free application that would leverage technology in order to promote his monthly magazine. He wanted the application to leverage augmented reality features in order to play videos on top of specific images that would be featured into pages of his magazine which concerns the automotive industry.