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Writes about web and mobile software development with Phoenix/Elixir, React & more.

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Tips on Landing a Software Engineering Job With No Experience

How to stand out as a candidate when you have no professional experience Getting your foot in the door with any profession is a challenge — and software engineering is no exception. It seems like every job listing requires at least some professional experience. But if you’re in this position

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You Don’t Need Webpack — 3 Better Alternatives for Building Your JavaScript

A new generation of JavaScript bundlers offers greatly improved developer experiences If you’re building any kind of frontend app with multiple source files and dependencies, you’re going to need a build tool to help you solve the problem ofbundling — putting all of the source files and dependencies together

Expo 46 — What’s New and Why it Matters for React Native Development

Expo is a great tool for cross-platform development of React Native apps — and with the release of Expo 46, it just keeps getting better. In this post, we’ll dig into the new features of Expo 46, and more important, why they matter. I’ll admit I’m a little

Why Your Next Web App Frontend Might be The Backend

Why Your Next Web App Frontend Might be The Backend

How LiveView and other real-time server-side rendered HTML technologies are changing how the frontend is written If you’re developing a rich, highly interactive web app in 2022, chances are you’re using some sort of frontend JavaScript framework such as React, Angular or Vue, which talks to a backend

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Build Real-time Chat With Phoenix and LiveView in Fewer Than 50 Lines of Code

If you haven’t experienced the awesome power of LiveView in the Phoenix framework, strap in: we’re going to build a real-time, high-performance chat system with fewer than 50 lines of code. That includes all the code for both the frontend and the backend (spoiler alert: they’re kind

5 Elixir Libraries I Install on Every New Project

5 Elixir Libraries I Install on Every New Project

My list of indispensable tools & libraries for building with Elixir/Phoenix I’m a huge fan of the Elixir language and the Phoenix web framework in particular. As a functional language with a well-designed actor model for concurrency, Elixir helps avoid entire categories of bugs & other complications that you might

So, You Wanna Get Hired as a React Native Developer

So, You Wanna Get Hired as a React Native Developer

Thoughts on learning React Native from interviewing & hiring React Native engineers Though there are more choices than ever in cross-platform mobile development, React Native remains an excellent way to build high-quality mobile applications while leveraging skillsets and technologies (and sometimes even code) that many in your organization may already know.