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Automating $50M+ in recurring revenue

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Automating $50M+ in recurring revenue

Groove saves $100,000+ annually by integrating their CRM and subscription billing provider with their product.

Using AWS Lambda and Cloudfront to retain SEO juice (using URL redirects)

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Using AWS Lambda and Cloudfront to retain SEO juice (using URL redirects)

Don't hurt or destroy your page ranking when you switch blog/help documentation providers. Retain your SEO juice by redirecting people to your new pages

A Developers Guide to Conversion (Link Click) Tracking with Google Tag Manger, Google Adwords, and…

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A Developers Guide to Conversion (Link Click) Tracking with Google Tag Manger, Google Adwords, and…

Say you’re marketing department comes to and they want to run an ad campaign with Google AdWords and they want to be able to track…

The need for HOCs (Higher Order Components) in React

The need for HOCs (Higher Order Components) in React

This week I found myself in need of a way to pass data and functions as props to a component. Due to the constraints of the library I was…

How to use ONE language to create native Mobile, Desktop, and Web applications (Plus Chrome…

How to use ONE language to create native Mobile, Desktop, and Web applications (Plus Chrome…

The language that gives you the power to write code for almost any platform is JavaScript.

A quick look at an awesome React Native Boilerplate

A quick look at an awesome React Native Boilerplate

Tired of reading text? Then jump straight to my quick video that will walk you through the entire boilerplate.

Develop React Native/Redux Applications like a BOSS with this tool

Develop React Native/Redux Applications like a BOSS with this tool

If you’re using Redux to manage your state in React Native apps then you should also be using the React Native Debugger to super charge…

Integrating React, Redux, and Webpack into a Ruby on Rails project

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Integrating React, Redux, and Webpack into a Ruby on Rails project

Ruby on Rails(RoR) is great for web development but when you want more dynamic pages on your front end, it might be time to bring a library…

Push Notifications with React Native (iOS) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

Push Notifications with React Native (iOS) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

Push notifications are an essential and powerful way to communicate with your users and one way to implement them with React Native is by…

Deploying a React Native Application to your iPhone

Deploying a React Native Application to your iPhone

If you’ve created a React Native application and now want to put it on your iPhone so that you can use it yourself or show it off to all of…

Setting up your Macbook for React Native and Android

Setting up your Macbook for React Native and Android

If you were like me and had never used Android Studio before, setting up your Mac for use with React Native and Android might be an error…

5 steps to uploading files and images to S3 in React using Express, SuperAgent, Multer, and…

5 steps to uploading files and images to S3 in React using Express, SuperAgent, Multer, and…

Using Amazon’s S3 service is a cheap and easy way to store files and images for your web applications in the cloud and today I’m going to…

3 Reasons Why Redux is Amazing

Over the last week I build this application using React and Redux for the first time and found the experience to be extremely enjoyable…

React Component Creation Confusion

For the last week I have been learning React and since it is such a bleeding edge technology it has been hard determining which best…

Using AJAX and APIs to create Autocomplete Inputs

In order to make an internet user’s experience more pleasant, some websites will have input fields that autocomplete as the user is typing. I find the autocomplete feature to be very pleasing and always appreciate the websites that have them. In this post, I am going to show you

Ajax: jQuery Edition (Part 2)

Last week we looked at how to use AJAX with plain JavaScript to load data from a server without needing to perform a page refresh, now we’ll look at how to use AJAX with jQuery. Before we get started using AJAX with jQuery, I first want to briefly introduce

AJAX…what is that? (Part 1)

Yes, AJAX happens to be the name of a wonderful soap that is “Stronger than grease,” but AJAX is also the name of a web technology that powers some of the internet’s most popular websites. If you’ve ever used Twitter, Google Maps, or Facebook, you’ve seen AJAX