There are times when the initial blank html page being download for a React application is not perfect. One reason might be Search Engine Optimization, another might be a slower initial render, especially on mobile devices. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a good reason you might want to do server-side rendering. While the Google bot executes...

Using Docker to deploy applications is great but there is so much more you can do with Docker if you want to. And it can solve some interesting problems along the way. One problem when developing with NPM to manage dependencies is keeping all dependencies in sync. If I pull a repository from GitHub and an NPM install I will get a local copy, on my...

Single Page Applications (SPA) are really popular these days. And that is understandable as React, Angular and similar libraries with browser based routing make it quite easy to do so for developers. End users like SPA’s as well because navigating around is really fast. Much faster than the traditional browser-based applications that do lots of postbacks....

One problem with creating a Single Page Application (SPA) is that you might load the entire application when the user first starts the application but most of it is never used. Sure navigation is nice and fast after the initial load but that slows down the initial load as that becomes larger. And that might be worth it if the user navigates to all,...

Angular 2 does a lot of awesome work for you. But it doesn’t do everything you might expect. One thing it doesn’t do is set a lot of HTTP request headers. Now that makes sense as Angular doesn’t know what you are doing with a request so you really need to do so. But most Http request made with the Http service are going to be for JSON serialized data....

Creating Chrome extensions is quite easy. In fact it is so easy I found it hard to believe how quick I had a sample up and running. And given how useful Chrome extensions can be I wondered how hard it would be to create one using React. It turns out that it is easy   Creating a basic React app To get started I decided to create a React app using...