Protecting a business from worst case scenarios is key when using a Lambda function to integrate a third-party event with a modern cloud application. We share best practices and the functionality you need to build a robust and secure production-ready Lambda function. — This article was collaboratively authored by Whitespectre team members Guillermo A. Caserotto, Benjamin Calace, and Alex Naumchuk.

New JavaScript APIs, such as AbortController, are revolutionizing the way we write code by enhancing readability and maintainability. We share code examples of how you can use the AbortController API to improve code and simplify the event lifecycle management. — This article was collaboratively authored by Whitespectre team members Guillermo A. Caserotto, Benjamin Calace, and Alex Naumchuk. At Whitespectre, we strongly believe that the best code is the code that doesn’t need to be written in the first place. However, we also understand that there are situations where writing code…

Learn how to use decentralized oracle network, Chainlink, to integrate real-world data into smart contracts and blockchain applications- beyond its usual DeFi use case. — by Marc Cámara, Senior Engineer at Whitespectre Blockchain technology has forever changed how we store, process, and transfer data. But an inherent limitation is that blockchains are isolated networks that cannot communicate with each other or with servers outside the blockchain. …

Managing multiple modals is a limitation seen in both React Native’s standard modal implementation and in popular third-party libraries. Learn how we came up with our own approach to address this, and how to use our rn-modal-presenter library. — by the Whitespectre React Native Team This article was co-authored by Lucas Diez de Medina and Rui Lu, members of the Whitespectre React Native team. During an investigation for an app build, we noticed that the current React Native standard modal implementation is unable to manage multiple modals presented at…

Time has flown by. Take a look at what this year brought us in the frontend space with some highlights from one year of frontend updates and let us bring some predictions to the table! — by the Whitespectre Engineering Team Highlights from 2022 React 18 and Concurrent Features 2022 has been the release year of React 18, the last major version bump since October 2020. …

Is RBS — a type annotation system introduced in Ruby 3 — production-ready? Find out as we share pros and cons, how to use it with plain Ruby or with Ruby on Rails, a comparison with Sorbet, and our recommendation. — by Hugo Farji, Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer at Whitespectre Ruby is a dynamic language and you probably already know that it doesn’t have explicit typing included in its toolset. RBS aims to introduce new tools to help with that.

Forget Java and Objective-C. Instead, learn how to communicate with the native layer of your React Native app using Kotlin and Swift, using primitive and complex data types with promises. — by Jefferson Tavares de Pádua, Senior React Native Developer at Whitespectre In this article, you will learn how to: Use Typescript as a starting point to build native modules Build native Android modules using Kotlin in React Native

This month we cover the release of Turbopack, the new frontend bundling tool, the upcoming useEvent React hook and animated CSS grid layouts in Chrome. — by the Whitespectre Engineering Team This month we talk about: Turbopack: The Webpack Successor The Upcoming useEvent React Hook Animated CSS Grid Layouts Turbopack: The Webpack Successor Webpack, the gold standard for frontend bundling, is mature and stable, but desperately slow for large projects and configuration can be cumbersome. …

Product Managers are good at engaging with stakeholders, it’s what we do. But with some strategic mentoring, we can help our engineering colleagues be more effective in stakeholder interactions. — by Ru McGuinness, Senior Product Manager at Whitespectre I bumped into an engineer I worked with several years back. I was somewhat taken aback when, over a few beers he thanked me for bringing him out of his shell. …