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Easyship case study: How They Switched From AngularJS to Vue and Increased Website Performance by 37%
For any digital product, a website may either work as a well-oiled lead generation machine or slow down business growth if the execution is mangled.
Why We Love, Use, And Support Vue.js
Let me tell you a story about Vue. Not just from my perspective as a Vue developer. I will also try to explain some of the many reasons behind adopting it within Monterail and why we recommend it to companies we work...
Different Approaches to Cross-Platform Development: NativeScript, React Native, PWA, and Hybrid Apps
A smooth, cross-platform experience is the dream of every developer and business owner since the release of modern smartphones. In the history of mobile we’ve had iPhones and Blackberries, Android, Windows Phones, and a...
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“Should I Consider PWA?” Remarkable Possibilities of Progressive Web Apps
Have you heard about progressive Web apps? Of course you have. The whole Internet seems to be discussing them right now. And the subject got even hotter after Google I/O 18’ and a long-awaited confirmation that PWAs are...
GDPR for Digital Companies—Interview With an Expert in IT Law
You probably heard about this new EU-wide piece of legislation called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although much has been said on the subject, still many business owners struggle to wrap their heads around...
Why Is Choosing Good Solutions for Projects So Hard in Rails?
For a long time, I’ve been hearing a lot of criticism about the Rails way and some months ago my private experiences convinced me that I cannot find any use cases for that approach. It has developers build very fat...
Working Towards GDPR Compliance: 30 Questions To Be Answered By Digital Businesses
There are probably few companies—whether in the IT industry or outside of it—that could say confidently “Yes, we’re ready for the GDPR”. The new law is a hard nut to crack as it does not provide explicit instructions or...
PWAs Are Now Available for Apple Devices with iOS 11.3
And so it happened. Progressive Web Apps are no longer limited to Android users, but can be now accessed by iPhone and iPad owners with the 11.3 iOS update. On March 30, Apple has quietly added support for technologies...
Monterail on the Financial Times 1000 List of Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies
Focusing on delivering high-quality software and building a close-knit team pays off. How do we know? Monterail has been ranked in Financial Times list of 1000 Europe’s fastest growing companies in 2018. This is the...
How We Got a Web App for Free with React Native and ReactXP
Using ReactXP allowed us to develop a native mobile app for two platforms and a Web app simultaneously, essentially giving us the Web app for free. And now I'm going to tell you a story behind it.
Tech Leading—A Story of One Project in Four Acts
This is a story of how a day-to-day developer overcame his fears and came out of his comfort zone. Of how he and his team got into a project which code was so bad they cried a little when they saw it for the first time....
Rails Aren’t Bad. Active Record Is.
Is there anyone out there in the Ruby community who doesn’t know Active Record? I don’t think so. Many of us start our adventure with Rails by writing AR models. And we write them a lot. We detect the N+1 issue many...
27 Women Who Change the Tech World [Infographic]
From developers to designers, from CEOs to investors, today’s tech landscape is full of people redefining our perception and use of technology. Among them—many women spearheading this change. True, there are still too...
SOLID Principles Cheatsheet [Printable PDF]
In object-oriented programming, SOLID states for five design principles that help a developer build easy to extend and maintain software. In this article I’m not going to explain what’s hidden behind it though. It’s...
Chicken or the Egg? Terraform’s Remote Backend
Recently, we have decided to expand our DevOps stack with the addition of Terraform for creating Infrastructure as Code manifests. It became obvious from the start that local backend is not an option, so we had to set...
Different Approaches to Cross-Platform Development: NativeScript, React Native, PWA, and Hybrid Apps
A smooth, cross-platform experience is the dream of every developer and business owner since the release of modern smartphones. In the history of mobile we’ve had iPhones and Blackberries, Android, Windows Phones, and a...
Introduction To Agile Retrospective: Dos and Don'ts For Project Managers
I remember hearing about Agile for the first time. The concept behind it seemed pretty straightforward: sprints, planning sessions, and backlog—it all looked like it could really help us accomplish more in the same...
End-To-End Testing With CodeceptJS
One of the first things one learns as a quality assurance specialist is that there are three basic types of automated tests: unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
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.