Written by Evert Pot
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on Feb. 21, 2020
Typescript is not just Javascript + types. Using TS more is slowly altering how I think about how my code should be written. My code is becoming more functional, and I’m incentivized to write things in a way that typescript is more likely to catch. I wanted to share an isolated example of this. In…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Feb. 18, 2020
Say, you’re in a situation where you have a user type, that looks a bit as follows: export type User = { firtName: string; lastName: string; email: string; } function save(user: User) { // ... } const user = { firstName: 'Evert', lastName: 'Pot', email: 'foo@example.org', } save(user); But, instead…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Feb. 11, 2020
By default browsers will render links blue, and links that have been visited purple. This quality of life feature goes back as far as I can remember, a casual search tells me the feature existed in Mosaic. I kinda love blue links. They’re so recognizable as links. But with CSS, many people change…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Jan. 2, 2020
When building web services, a common wisdom is to try to reduce the number of HTTP requests to improve performance. There are a variety of benefits to this, including less total bytes being sent, but the predominant reason is that traditionally browsers will only make 6 HTTP requests in parallel fo…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Nov. 29, 2019
Links are critical when writing good REST APIs. Most APIs these days use JSON for their main format. Unfortunately, there’s no universally agreed on way to encode a link in JSON. REST can really benefit from generic tooling. To write a generic tool that consumes links, it means that these tools mig…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Nov. 22, 2019
I just released Ketting version 5. Ketting is a generic hypermedia/HATEOAS client for Javascript and Typescript, for browsers and Node.js. It’s been a while since I last blogged about this in January, so I thought it might be nice to talk about all the things that have changed since then. These are…