Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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I've been hearing about GraphQL lately, a library to create an API endpoint for your data. GraphQL has been positioned as a replacement for our traditional REST backends as it tries to solve the same problem. Which is, to make data available for our web or mobile apps, but with a different approach that is supposed to be more flexible.
Frontend Development
In 2017, reading news reports about online security breaches has become commonplace. In the United States alone, there was a 40% increase in security breaches in 2016 vs 2015 and since 2013 hackers have stolen over 7 billion customer records.
Companies once rose and fell based on the word-of-mouth they could generate around their products. Business must have gotten much more complicated with the mass consumption of radio and magazines. The mom and pop shops, having figured out print branding, would have had a hard time competing with the radio jingles of more savvy companies, which were ahead of the curve.
Modernize Your Stack
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day to raise awareness about accessibility and encourage development teams to make accessibility part of their practice. At Rangle, this is something that we are striving to do. We have helped several of our clients build accessibly, but it still represents a competing priority for many software projects. What developers, scrum masters and product owners should know is that like any other new practice, the initial cost incurred while ramping up ultimately saves time and leads to a more robust outcome.
Build Engineering Capability
A common dilemma for leaders with eCommerce platforms across industries is recognizing when their online shopping platform's functionality is falling behind – or when the cost of keeping up is wasting valuable money and resources.
Escape CMS & Commerce Lock-In
If modern JavaScript frameworks are your thing, you've probably heard people talking, recently, about React Fiber.
React
Image loading is an important job of many Native applications for iOS and Android. We want to load images as quickly as possible, and to load them only once.
Frontend Development
FITC Toronto 2017 was a huge success! Rangle's Varun Vachhar and Mike Costanzo spoke to packed audiences over the three-day event. Here's your inside look at what these two had to say:
Defining Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration (CI) has become an essential ingredient for teams doing iterative and incremental software delivery. CI is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early.
Modernize Your Stack
Programmers routinely use Stack Overflow as a brain extender these days, but there is still a place for long-form tutorials and well-organized reference guides. These can do more than inform: they can shape how a technology develops by guiding readers in particular directions, and simply by existing, they tell developers what their peers find interesting.
Angular
In this tutorial we're going to collect analytics on a Redux-powered user form. You will learn: How to measure user drop off in forms using Google Analytics. How to create a destination funnel report in Google Analytics. How to map Redux actions to Google Analytics events and page views.
Rangle's presence was front and centre at this year's ng-conf 2017, the world's original Angular conference. Six Ranglers took to the stage to share their knowledge and expertise in front of 1,000+ developers. Here's what our experts had to say:
Frontend Development