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Guild Case Study: How We Used React Native to Share Over 80% of Code Between iOS, Android, and The Web
We started working with Guild around eighteen months ago, back when Ashley Friedlein and Matthew O’Riordan approached us with their idea for a messaging app for professional communication—a WhatsApp for business, as...
All The Numbers From The State of Vue.js Report 2019
The popularity of the last edition of State of Vue.js surpassed our expectations. We got over 8k downloads from people all around the world. Many of them used the report to convince their teach leads, CTOs, or even...
How Our Office Design Helps Us Develop Better Software
One of the risks of collaborating with external vendors is working with people from some agency whom you don’t see on a daily basis. This means you don’t really know how they work and how professional they really are....
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How We Learned Elixir—Our Story and Tutorial for Beginners
At Monterail we have fancied the Elixir language for quite a long time. However, for some reasons, we failed to get it into production usage except for a few minor implementations. And I felt like this should change. So...
A Recap of 2018 in Eleven Points
Each January, we celebrate the ups and try to learn something from the downs that we had to deal with over the course of the past year. In 2018, the highs far outweighed the lows so, in keeping with last year's...
Working With Legacy Code — How Refactoring Let Us Escape The Black Hole
I’m pretty much sure that sooner or later every developer finds themselves working on a project that makes them face the issue of legacy code. For those lucky dogs who still haven’t experienced it firsthand—legacy code...
Crafting Visual Stories Using Data and Information
In October 2018 I was invited to give a talk at the fifth Future of Design meetup, called The Beauty of Data. My talk was called “Crafting a story in data visualization”.
Migrating from AngularJS to Angular Using a “Hybrid” Approach—a Case Study
Getting into a project based on AngularJS in its 1.4 version is not the most exciting thing that can happen to a programmer in 2019. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re a junior front-end developer or a senior...
Best Communication Practices We Use To Keep Our Clients Happy (And In The Loop)
There are many best practices for efficient communication in software development out there. The most hip frameworks for building digital products, Scrum and Kanban, offer some good fundamentals for development teams....
Differences between React Native, NativeScript, PWA, and Hybrid Apps—Cross-Platform Development
Does React Native or NativeScript really work as they claim to be? After all smooth, cross-platform experience is the dream of every developer and business owner since the release of modern smartphones. In the history...
People to Watch If You’re a Vue.js Developer [Infographic]
You probably already know this: the first step to learning something in any subject is acknowledging that you don’t necessarily know it all inside out. The second step is a bit easier, though, as it does not include any...
Reasons Why Vue.js Is Getting More Traction Every Month
With over 120k stars on GitHub, Vue.js is currently the trendiest JavaScript front-end framework, beating Angular and React in GitHub star count by a fair margin. When it comes to overall popularity, React is still the...
Twenty Most Popular Vue.js Newsletter Articles in 2018
If you’ve been following Monterail for a while, you probably aware that the Vue.js Newsletter, now a part of the official Vue.js News channel, has its roots inside our organizations. Launched somewhere in mid-2016, the...
Admyt on Outsourcing Software Development and Working with Legacy Code
Tired with coins, lines, and faulty pay machines, Jordan Wainer, an entrepreneur and innovator decided to improve car parking systems around the world. That’s the story behind Admyt, a solution providing a seamless...
Discovery Workshops: How We Ensure Alignment Between Your Vision and An Actual Product
Working with an outsourced team can be a challenge. Different locations and time zones, sometimes even different cultures. You are where the business is, working hard to move things forward, while your hired team is...
Updated State of Vue.js is coming in February 2019
We’re back! And I hope you’re just as excited as I am writing this. You might have noticed some suggestions about the next edition of State of Vue.js on Evan You’s Twitter… But it’s time to make it official. The updated...
“Scalability Is Key”—Tips for Israeli IT Companies Doing Business in Poland by Katarzyna Dzidt
4,000 kilometers away from each other and vastly different in size, language, and business etiquette. Israel and Poland may have their differences, but are equals in more ways than one. The “Start-Up Nation” brings...
Here's How Outsourcing Software Development Brings Benefits Beyond Time and Cost
Many cringe just thinking about outsourcing software development to some external company. Well, of course they would. It comes with countless challenges, including time zone and cultural differences, miscommunication,...
Innovating Car Parking Systems Around the World While Solving Real-Life Problems—the Admyt Way
Admyt takes advantage of licence plate recognition systems to finally do away with the idea of coin-fed meters and the frustration that came with keeping track of paper tickets. Their mission is to provide a seamless...