Justin Hunter articles - 39 total
How To Build and Host a Hugo Site
Hugo is a static site generator that first launched in 2013. While many static site generators are...
How To Build and Host a Gatsby Blog
Gatsby is one of the most popular static site generators available. Started in 2015 as an open source...
Why Good Commit Messages Matter, Even For Solo Developers
In a dimly lit room, Alan, a solo developer, feverishly typed away on his keyboard. His project, a...
How To Monitor Events in Your Svelte App
It seems there is a new JavaScript framework launched everyday. And while that is largely true, some...
How To Use Error Boundaries in React With Error Monitoring
Backend engineers have all the tools. Nice error handling. Reporting. Metrics. What about us frontend...
How to Build a Custom Go Client For a REST API
Exceptionless is powered by a REST API. When you interact with the dashboard UI, when you use the ....
How to Debug Electron Apps
Electron is a great framework that makes developing cross-platform desktop applications easy. If you'...
Saying Thanks to the Open Source Community Through Sponsorship
Exceptionless has always been committed to the open-source software ecosystem. In fact, Exceptionless...
How to Use React Hooks to Monitor Events in Your App
The introduction of Hooks in React was a game-changer. Developers now had options when it came to cre...
Debugging a .NET Serverless App
Serverless development has become the hot thing in tech. Renting time on a virtual machine only when...
How to Create a Custom Table Component in React
Tables are everywhere. Even if the web (thankfully) moved away from using tables to layout sites, you...
Why You Should be Practicing Exception Driven Development
You've heard of test-driven development. You've heard of behavior-driven development. Maybe you've ev...
Progressive Web Apps Will Save The Open Web
This article first appeared on my site, so make sure to check out my other writing there. Not enoug...
How to Spend $60 to Store a 7mb File - Or Why You Should Write Unit Tests
I'm not the best at writing automated tests. Sometimes I write them as I go, sometimes I write them b...
Comparing Error Monitoring Services
Error monitoring is vital to the success of any application. Console logs only get you so far. Once y...
How to Self-Host Your Error Monitoring Service
The beauty of open-source solutions is that you are often given the option to self-host or pay for an...
Why We Upgraded Our Production Application to .NET 5.0
For anyone who has built an application, you've probably built it on some library or framework that c...
Using an Error Monitoring Service to Track User Experience
Errors aren't always caused by code. They can be caused by poor UX design and having a process to catch them is important.
It's OK to Build to Learn
I write a lot about product, startups, and market validation. But I'm also a developer who is constan...
How to Create a Sprite Animation Without Canvas
Creating a sprite animation in JavaScript
How to Setup Simple Hot-Reload on an Electron App With No External Dependencies
A quick tutorial to enable hot reload on an Electron app with no external dependencies
How I Became a Developer in My 30s
How I learned to code and became a developer in my 30s.
Let's Build a Sports Team Sentiment Analyzer Using Next.js, Twitter, and Machine Learning
I built an app that analyzes tweets about sports teams so that I could better learn Next.js, the Twitter API, and put some Machine Learning to good use.
I Wrote a Puppeteer Script That Ran For Two Days
Using Google's Puppeteer test automation and headless browser to scrape data that was otherwise inaccessible.
I Built My First Chrome Extension To Improve The Software My Wife Uses
How I built my first chrome extension, a solution custom-built for my wife.
Building Products That Solve Problems
Photo via https://unsplash.com/@punttim When writing software, it’s easy to assume whatever is shipp...
Build a Versioning System With IPFS and Blockstack
Being able to see version history is like rewinding history There are so many great use cases for...
Tutorial: How to Build an IPFS & Text Notification App
Photo from https://unsplash.com/@hckmstrrahul The way new technology is best adopted is when it is...
Give Users Control of Their Data by Giving Them Choice
Photo courtesy of https://unsplash.com/@burst Whether you are building in the blockchain space, the...
Build a Zero Dependency Notes App on IPFS — Part I
This is part one of a two-part tutorial. Part one focuses on authentication and part two focuses on...