A year ago our front-end was written in a cumbersome combination of Backbone, TypeScript, and a custom state management layer. It was maintainable, but we wanted to ship features faster than it would let us. We wanted to migrate to a React + MobX architec... (more…)

Roll your own alternative to Google Analytics Real Time Statistics...

I didn’t know I was looking for it, but when I found it something clicked.

React Native is fast by default, but it’s so easy to make it slower. At first, I will explore what's going on under the hood. The key to better react native performance is understanding how react native actually works. And I will provide the main ti... (more…)

Introduction Javascript is a single thread programming language. That is when you have code something like this The second line doesn’t get executed till the first one gets completed. Mostly this won’t be a problem since millions of calculations are... (more…)