Recently, I built a proof of concept for a feature using Laravel’s Broadcasting feature. While I was familiar with its existence, it was my first time actually using it for something. With broadcasting, we’re referring to the concept of transmitting server-side events to one or more clients; typically,...
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After working with React (and TypeScript) for a long time, I’ve recently been contributing to a Vue application. While I felt right at home in Vue 3’s Composition API (given how similar it feels to React Hooks), I did miss the ability to easily use TypeScript purely for...
Have you ever seen an error message like the one above before? If you’ve used tools such as PHPStan alongside GitHub Actions then it might be familiar to you. GitHub refers to these as annotations. They are used to add an error message (on the offending line in a...
About a year ago, I wrote about managing your ports with Traefik in your local development environment. That blog post described how to set up the Traefik proxy and route all your traffic to the correct container without having to rely on the ports exposed by your container. This can...
What is technical debt? How can you fix technical debt and what is the best approach to avoid technical debt?
I want to start with a small disclaimer that I don’t fully understand what exactly went wrong and why the things we did fixed the problem. I’m pretty sure I would be able to find out by staring long enough at very complex code, but at some point,...
One of the client projects I work on has larger, enterprise customers. Because of this, I needed to create a way for their users to sign into our application using single sign-on (SSO). To do that, we needed to automatically provision users in our system. This is something I wasn’...
In the previous article, we set up a monorepo project with 2 applications and a package. We also enabled Yarn workspaces to manage the dependencies and linking of the workspaces. One inconvenience so far was having to start 2 separate terminal windows to run the applications. This isn’t a...