I am migrating a legacy .NET framework application to .NET core and on to .NET 5 and ran into an interesting issue. We have a shared library that multiple projects use for database access and business logic. One of the main problems is that one of the projects that uses this library is an .NET…
I decided to play around with using the Twitter API and have put together a working example. This example also works with emoji’s which is a whole other beast that I did not have any previous experience with. First thing that you have to do is go to Twitter’s website and sign up to get…
Reducers should be pure functions. What this means is that there should be no side effects. Now, what this really means is return values are only determined by input values. When using redux API calls are common place inside of reducer to handle sending/receiving data. However, this ruins the idea of keeping our reducer pure…
If you had to work with Jquery to manipulate DOM elements and having to infer variables from the DOM this will be a very welcome change. State management is a way of storing all of your data in one place so that it is always a reflection of the correct data even as it changes.…
I recently helped get some of team up to speed on setting up and working with our enterprise architecture for our front end applications. Hopefully the knowledge I shared with them will help someone else out. What is React, and how does it work? React uses a virtual DOM that tracks state changes and as…
I have been playing around with making a 4x game for some time, and recently stalled out when I had to figure out how to program the AI. 4X games are called 4X because the goals of the game break down into the the following categories eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. With all of the…
If the rules design pattern is new to you, let me give you a quick run down of what it is and how it works. The rules design pattern is useful for situations where there are many different options and the “best” option needs to be selected. It is also useful if you find yourself…
Let’s start with what debouncing is. Debouncing is a way of calling a function any number of times but only allowing it to execute after a set amount of time has passed since the last time it was called. I recently ran into an issue using material-table where filtering was taking an unacceptably long time.…