Field notes, primers, and case-tested patterns from Rangle on agentic systems, design systems, frontend, and AI strategy.
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Virtual reality is exploding. Brands now have increasing options to create virtual reality experiences for customers, one of which is React VR. React VR's value proposition is very similar to why people use React Native, and it shares many of the same benefits.
Frontend Development
As big proponents of React's various capabilities, we are excited about the recent release of React VR. React VR is the latest web-based framework for WebVR experiences. It operates seamlessly within the browser, giving JavaScript enthusiasts like ourselves and many of our clients the opportunity to integrate VR experiences into existing web applications.
React
Canadian CIOs have a lot to celebrate. According to the CanadianCIO Census 2017, hiring is up, budgets are increasing (in some cases by as much as 15%), and there is a plethora of new technology that many companies are ready to soon deploy.
Modernize Your Stack
In part 1, we learned about Docker and created a Dockerfile that provides a suitable environment in which our application's services can run. If you recall, our sample application has two services, a Node backend API, and a React front-end. In part 2, we will use Docker Compose to orchestrate our application's services during development so that we can run our distributed application with a single command.
Frontend Development
Many of today's web applications are composed of multiple layers. At minimum, there are two: a front-end presentation layer, that usually runs client side, and a back-end layer, that provides the logic and data. It's common to have additional layers too, such as a database layer. For example, PostgreSQL or MongoDB provide long-term data storage, and a cache layer, for example Redis, for short-term, rapid-access data storage. It is even possible to have multiple back-end layers each with their own concerns. For example, one layer responsible for RESTful requests, another for Websockets, and another for computation-intensive requests.
Financial institutions and other FinServ and FinTech companies are spending more than ever building applications for web, mobile, kiosk and even in-branch experiences. It's encouraging to see the dedication of resources to this area, but the spending is spiraling out of control, becoming frivolous, and, in some cases, redundant.
Modernize Your Stack
Here's a daunting task: deliver best-in-class digital services while reducing operating costs. Leadership teams are all too familiar with having to find innovative solutions to business problems while maintaining the integrity of consumer data, abiding to budgets, and operating within the constraints of the banking industry, one that is highly regulated and historically opaque when it comes to transparency.
Modernize Your Stack
A common refrain in tech companies today is:
Over the last year, two architectural ideas have risen to the surface of JavaScript web app development: Component-Oriented Architecture (COA) and Redux state management. Component-Oriented Architecture is one of the main tenets in both React and Angular: it encourages developers to break down the UI into a graph of self-contained, re-usable UI components. On the other hand, Redux is a functional-reactive approach to state management where the UI is at any time a derivation of a global, immutable store.
Frontend Development
Any chainsaw that can cut down a tree can also take off a leg if used carelessly. Equally, any framework as powerful as Angular will inevitably contain traps for the unwary.
Frontend Development
Building digital analytics features into web and mobile products is a small but strategically important set of activities when building out an MVP (minimum viable product) or rewriting a product. This blog post reviews where analytics planning intersects with other project kick off activities.
Align Product Strategy
Programmers tend to have strong opinions about what makes code easier or harder to understand. Until recently, though, those opinions have been based on self-analysis and received wisdom, i.e., on programmers thinking about what they themselves do, and (more often) on what the rest of the herd is saying.