At Metal Toad our front-end build is important to us. It helps us keep standards consistent and improves the quality of our projects.
I've been thinking a lot about Javascript over the last few months. And not the "How can we architect a better system" type of thinking, but the "Why...
At Metal Toad, we have several bots integrated into Slack.
The point I’d like to get across in this post is why I structure React components the way that I do for this architecture. It pairs nicely with the...
Update, November 27, 2017: This post explains the Http service used in Angular 2. This is now deprecated in favor of the newer HttpClient released in...
In React Architecture: Part 1 we discussed a desire to configure a working React website with as few addons as possible. The post ended with the...
React is awesome. An 11 out 10. In my opinion, the best UI library currently in the ecosystem. It streamlines UI componentization, reusability, UI...
Here at Metal Toad, we are starting to use NPM as a task runner to automate our development processes.
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
How to run multiple concurrent HTTP requests, with the callbacks running only after all of them have completed with Angular 2.
A former Toad recently asked my opinion about this article:OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
Everyone wants to change the world, but in order to do so, you have to put on pants. I found a loophole. That loophole is web development.
First I explored Force Click on the Mac. Now it is on the web with javascript in Safari.
I love how easy ActiveAdmin is to use out of the box, but it can force you into using a panoply of workarounds for forms with any significant level...
In this blog post, we will learn how to request an HTTP GET call from an AngularJS Service and display the data in the template while avoiding the...
In 1989 I sat down at an Apple II E to write my first bit of code in BASIC.
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
I'm assuming most of you saw Gary Bernhardt's talk from CodeMash 2012 on some WAT™ features in Ruby and JavaScript.
Recently inspired by Peter Thiel's excellent book Zero to One, I've been reflecting on the software industry as the preeminent place where we can...
What are Objects & how do they differ from Arrays in Javascript? When is it advantageous to use one over the other?
In Part 1 of this blog post I omitted one very important detail about the nature of Arrays.
When working with Angular's $http service, one of the nifty options is a built-in cache service.
AngularJS is a relatively new javascript framework that is taking the web application development world by storm.