So, you have a React application, understand the performance and therefore usability benefits of splitting the code you ship to your users into multiple smaller bundles (chunks) rather than one large bundle, and have heard of Webpack ‘dynamic imports’ but are not quite sure how to go about using them…

My path to being a developer is fairly unusual, though getting less so as more and more people re-train to enter the tech world. …

Good automated tools are a cheap way to help create and maintain a baseline of accessibility (a11y) in a product, to then be expanded on with manual testing. We will look at manual testing strategies in another post, and here introduce 4 automated tools that can be used at different…

jest and react-testing-library are an increasingly used tooling pairing to test React components. We will briefly look at the differences between the two before looking at some high level examples, and how straightforward it is to add jest-axe to integrate aXe automated accessibility testing. Jest Jest is a JavaScript unit testing…

When researching examples for a first ever Android contribution, few examples existed for animations written in Kotlin. There were also few code examples of accessibility considerations within native animations. So here we go! Let’s look at writing a native ‘expand’ animation in Kotlin, and talk about how to assist those…

Akamai is one of the world’s leading Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers. Through the Akamai Intelligent Platform many products are offered to aid performance, availability, security, and insight generation. Other CDNs include Cloudflare, Fastly, MaxCDN, Incapsula, and Rackspace. Here we will look at what a CDN is, then some specifics…

Flow is a static type checker for Javascript. This post is intended for those who have heard of Flow, but have not yet tried to use it within a React app. …