Web App Dev
Gnarly Learnings from January 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. bin/rails notes Code comments are a pretty controversial topic but if you’re a rails developer and you’re in favor of them you should definitely check out bin/rails…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from December 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. OWASP Top Ten It’s important to stay sharp when it comes to online security. The Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP, is a non-profit organization dedicated…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from October 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. The Practical Effects on the GVL on Scaling in Ruby In “The Practical Effects of the GVL on Scaling in Ruby”, Nate Berkopec provides a great practical…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from September 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. An Introduction to Ractors in Ruby 🚨 Experimental feature alert! 🚨Ractors were introduced in Ruby 3 and represent an actor-model abstraction. Ractors provide true-blue parallelism and do…
Read MoreInfinite Scroll React Example with TypeScript and NextJS
For the uninitiated, infinite scroll (otherwise known as endless scroll) refers to a method of automatically loading data when a user scrolls to the bottom of their screen, allowing them to continue browsing content with minimal effort. If you’ve been in the front-end game since the good bad old days when jQuery was bleeding edge,…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from July 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to constantly update our skills and learn new perspectives. Here are some of the exciting pieces we learned from this month. The most underrated Rails helper: dom_id Despite being around for over a decade, a number of us at The Gnar have never interacted with the dom_id…
Read MoreHotwired Modals
We can use Hotwire — specifically, Stimulus and Turbo — to create some modals that present a nice, dynamic user experience. And they can do this while staying in a mutli-page app structure that Rails is so good at. First off, we need to know that, with Turbo, you can load a page with a…
Read MoreFebruary Gnarly Learnings #1: An Introduction to Propshaft
What an exciting couple of months it has been for the Rails community! Rails 7 was released in December of 2021 and this month we are welcoming Propshaft. David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Rails, released a post on Feb. 11 introducing the community to the new and improved asset pipeline for Rails. While…
Read MoreUnderstanding Observables in RxJS
Do you want a different way to handle state in your Javascript applications? Then I suggest giving Reactive Programming a try, and more specifically, RxJS. RxJS is a framework-agnostic library that provides tools for applying the Observer pattern. RxJS has extensive operators for handling state, and it is equipped with asynchronous event management functions. This…
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