Ember.js: Documentary

Honeypot filmed a great documentary on Ember.js and the story of its development. Brings up so many good memories from 2016. Back then, I was taking up by an ambitious task of re-writing the checkout service of the company I used work in, from plain PHP with monstrous AJAX spaghetti code, to something more stable, and consistent. Seeing a pure MVC architecture in JS framework was a real surprise for me, as most of the codebase I faced back then, didn’t have any structure....

July 24, 2019 · 1 min · anvyst

EmberJS: JCF with components

JavaScript Custom Form elements is a useful jQuery plugin for customising your form elements, in case you have to get away from the default styling of the form elements. However, there’s a tiny “but” with the plugin when you use it with EmberJS. JCF initially designed to be used on the global scope, and in some case (like mine), it’s not what you need. If you’re using custom select-element with JCF without JCF....

August 22, 2016 · 2 min · anvyst

JavaScript: shooting yourself in the foot with configs once again

I’m not the only one blown away after digging up some of React/Redux boilerplate code. Great article proving some of my thoughts on the subject: ** Copy-pasting configs from boilerplate projects always leads to hard-to-debug issues like this.** It’s easy to miss somebody’s configuration decisions when you’re not the one making them. Don’t use boilerplate projects unless you understand each and every technology it uses! I understand Dan’s frustration. But could we look at this from a different perspective?...

May 12, 2016 · 1 min · anvyst