Virtual Keyboard

Oh well, next time we speak you all probably gonna have your virtual office set ups ready

https://youtu.be/krnuV72-b7s

Don't know why, but this looks addictive

CODEPUSH

After getting into mobile app development, codepush was something that grabbed my attention right from the start, so much that I ended up setting it in our company and writing a tutorial on how to use it.

This saves us so much time & hassle when it comes to releasing an update. Now, instead of pushing new app to the store and waiting Apple / Google reviews, we push it to the appcenter and our users get it automatically.

As a bonus, appcenter also gives analytics and crash reports (although not as elaborate as bugsnag).

If you are working with mobile apps and (somehow) never used it - it's a must.

https://appcenter.ms/

Google's security

So here is an interesting finding of mine. Recently I released an app on ios and android. Long story short, Google found some security vulnerability when reviewing our app. Nothing serious, just some old package not complying with latest android version. But yes, vulnerability in a sense that it can be hacked.

Google told us to fix it by the end of 2020. We fixed it the same week, but our app got released with that vulnerability in one of the versions.

Now, the closest thing that I found publicly available from. Google to scan & find vulnerability in apps is Play Protect.

And guessed what - I scanned our insecure app, and it told me no vulnerabilities 🤷‍♂

So the equation is this:

Vulnerable app A

Google to devs - oh, that's insecure, dangerous, please fix it.

Google to users - this app is all good, no worries.

😐 Do I trust Google after that?

#insight

Another insight is if you put vote buttons in telegram, the comments seems to be disabled for that post.

Brainstorm time ⌚

React + Redux multi tenancy.

What are your thoughts / experience on building a multi tenant environment within the scope of React & Redux.

Suppose you have different tenants / users that can customise you app for themselves. Tenancy context is defined by separate domains.

Both UI and functionality varies per tenant.

Things I am thinking about is general architectural approach that would be viable here

E.g.

Custom themes, colours, UI etc - should this be retrieved from BE and stored in Redux store then applied throughout app with in line styling or there is a better way than redux store? It seems that redux is a bit suboptimal here for that purpose, but I can't think of a decent / better way to dynamically apply styling per tenant.

When trading meets technology

Are you top or bottom?

Pusher

https://pusher.com/

A great alternative to websockets. If you want to make your app live e.g. real time tracking, messaging, live updates and want to do it quickly, you will like it.

It's for those who want to get something working right away and don't mind paying for it.

Aaand there is also firebase if anything.

Real time open source db

Quite correctly this got pointed out in our chat as of high relation to the previous post

https://rethinkdb.com/

Which is great and you should always follow this approach. Saw a post here, think there is smth better or simply a nice alternative? Go in our chat and let people know. We don't bite.

Oh wow. That's just some new level annoyance.

You probably know that I keep recommending learning things for free online, but I also say if you are sure it's valuable - don't hesitate to award the person behind it.

For me personally, my 2 legends in some of the frontend / fullstack learning that I came across are

Netninja and rwieruch

And I did share both of their free content in this channel previously.

My logic on this is simple - I know what to expect, I used their free material and liked it, sometimes with what I learned from them helps me in my daily job that I'm being paid for and as a thank you I am happy to buy something from them (although I know I could find for free)

This is just a small note that rwieruch has a discount currently and I thought I'll have a look at his "The Road to GraphQL", should be fun.

If you decide to get one, the code that worked for me with 40% off was BF2020

PS this is not a promotion, this is kudos to the guy 🔥 you can find his website yourself

A bit of CSS hacking for your Sat evening

https://lea.verou.me/2020/10/the-var-space-hack-to-toggle-multiple-values-with-one-custom-property/

Plans for the weekend

Turns out with my current Internet connection there is no need to buy PS5 or gaming PC as Stadia can handle it (just gave it a try)

Oh well

Same for Google meets. Man up, Google

Yeah.. So.

Let's blame pokemon go, it's sus 😂

Funny if this would have been a server overload due to people playing cyberpunk on stadia

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The whole story of JavaScript from 1996.

This is super interesting, guys. I'm sure many of you havent been around when it all started.

Definitely give it a read 🔥

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/javascript-25/

​​Game dev from inside out

As we are approaching the end of 2020 (and hoping that 2021 will be a bit easier on us 😂), I can only recommend to those who are looking to have some interesting read there is a really cool series of building Crash Bandicoot from Andy Gavin (lead developer and designer of the game)

It's pretty long, but extremely interesting.

I'm gonna just quote our CTO here (a really bright individual) regarding those articles:

"This series is the primary reason why I do all this"

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

Relevant loading UI for 2020