Tyler Smith articles - 82 total
Absolute paths for assets in iOS & Android Cordova apps
Learn how to utilize absolute paths in Cordova by setting the scheme and hostname preferences on iOS and Android.
How to hold apps for manual release on Google Play Console and Apple's App Store Connect
Learn how to manually release Android and iOS apps after they are reviewed.
Implementing & testing Socialite authentication in Laravel
Learn how to implement and test Google authentication in a Laravel app using Socialite.
12 things I learned about hosting serverless sites on Cloudflare
Explore the quirks of the Cloudflare Developer Platform and the subtle inconsistencies between Workers and Pages.
First impressions of Astro: what I liked and disliked
A first glance of the features provided by the Astro framework.
Upsert a row in a DB that doesn't use primary keys or unique constraints
Perform an update or insert of a single row with raw SQL.
Stop the cursor from jumping to the corner of the screen on a Lenovo Yoga laptop
Prevent cursor from jumping on a Lenovo Yoga touchscreen by disabling the Pen device.
The winner of WordPress vs WP Engine will be Microsoft
How WordPress's crusade may push the web back towards ASP.NET.
Mock functions in individual tests using Jest
Mock functions in individual Jest tests & fallback to the original implementation if no mock was provided.
Get better autocomplete for Faker when using factory_boy
You can get autocomplete for Faker when using it with factory_boy.
Use SQLite as a Celery broker in Django
Run an SQLite-powered Celery broker in your Django application.
Understanding tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery
Learn the high-level concepts in Celery so you can start building your own task queues.
Automatically reload Celery workers with a custom Django command
Hook into Django's built-in automatic reloading to improve your Celery development experience.
Emulating Rails-like resource controllers in a server-rendered Django app
I don't love Django's approach to request handling or routing. The framework has too many options and...
Using a venv with Neovim's Python LSP
Get Python IntelliSense on your virtual environment's third party packages.
Change Fugitive's number of Git context lines in Neovim
Configure Neovim to display any number of Git context lines when performing diffs in Fugitive.
Build a Vite 5 backend integration with Flask
Learn how to build a lightweight backend Vite integration using a Flask Blueprint in ~50 lines of code.
Move manifest.json to the output directory's parent in Vite 5
Move Vite's manifest.json file outside of the build directory.
Using the same Caddyfile for both development and production
Leverage environment variables to use the same Caddyfile for both development and production.
Prevent Caddy's automatic http-to-https redirect
How to access a Caddy site from both http and https while developing locally.
Routing multiple paths to a reverse proxy using Caddy
Use Caddy to handle matching multiple paths and route them to the same reverse proxy using a named block.
Promise & async/await-like concurrency for API requests in Go
How to implement patterns like JavaScript's async/await and Promise.all() for HTTP requests in Golang.
Programmatically generate files in Cypress tests
The Cypress documentation recommends using fixtures for file uploads, but cluttering up a repository...
How to copy test results from a container to the host using Docker Compose
Copy files out a container and onto the host with Docker and Docker Compose.
Set an Active Storage attachment in an after_save callback
Set an attachment in a Ruby on Rails Active Record after_save callback without triggering an endless loop.
Resize images before saving them with Ruby on Rails Active Storage
Leverage Rails' included image_processing gem to resize your images before you pay for them on S3.
Faking private class constructors in JavaScript
You can simulate a private constructor in JS by requiring the constructor to accept something that is unavailable to the rest of the code. Here's how.
Add trailing slashes in Rails without breaking everything
Adding trailing slashes to URLs in Ruby on Rails is harder than one might expect. Rails is an...
Using Alpine.js directives on form_with in Ruby on Rails
Alpine.js makes Vue-like declarative state-driven UI available in server-rendered templates without...
Error boundary causes React Router links to stop working
Yesterday I was coding a React error boundary that wrapped most of the components in my app. When one...