Josh Pollock articles - 17 total
Parsing WordPress Block Data
Before WordPress 5.0, content for posts was stored as a string. It may or may not have contained HTML...
Josh Update: 2021
Last week I shared some Josh news on twitter that it was my last week at Saturday Drive. To answer a...
Using Docker For Local Development Of Headless WordPress Sites With NextJS
Back in 2016, I was talking about adding how the WordPress REST API was the first step in evolving Wo...
How To Use WordPress As An Authentication Provider For Laravel
Like a lot of PHP and JavaScript developers, I started web development by learning enough PHP and...
I Love Writing JavaScript, But Livewire Is A Great Way To Avoid Writing JavaScript For Stupid Reasons
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a React, to treat everything as if it were JS...
Unit Testing Classes That Call Functions From WordPress Core
In general, I make the distinction between unit and integration testing based on dependencies. A unit...
I Made An App With Userbase And Have Written A Blog Post About It
This blog post is about Userbase. It's not a tutorial. I made one app with Userbase, these are some i...
How To Use Docker For WordPress Development
When developing WordPress sites, apps, plugins and themes, it's always a good idea to work with a loc...
Developing WordPress Blocks Without WordPress
Now that WordPress has React-powered editor with code decoupled from WordPress, we do not need WordPr...
Typed Properties In PHP Are Neato
Until recently, for a PHP and JavaScript developer, avoiding bugs caused by variables being the wrong...
How To Immutably Update An Array In TypeScript
Using an array to collect objects is useful. But, it presents some challenges with searching and upda...
Testing Node's Event Emitter
Today at work, I implemented a basic event system using Node's EventEmitter class. I am developing a...
Gitlab CI For A TypeScript Project Bootstrapped With TSDX
Since I started working at Saturday Drive I've spent a lot of time learning about CI/CD using self-ho...
Why I Use Yarn, Not npm
Update: This post is based on using Yarn 1. A major update Yarn 2 has been released. I use Yarn 1.x....
A Few Things I Do Every Time I Start A New Gatsby Site
I'm a big fan of Gatsby.js. It powers my blog and a my other random sites. I've been trying our some...
Returning A Promise From A Function Is Extra Useful With TypeScript
I published a post recently about returning promises from JavaScript functions. The example code was...
Returning A Promise From A JavaScript Function Is Useful
One JavaScript feature that has tripped me up a bit recently is the difference between a function tha...