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When React Native was announced, the first reactions were overwhelmingly positive. Traditionally, when we think about web technologies in the mobile space, things like Apache Cordova spring to mind which allow us to package web sites or web applications as applications for mobile platforms. In this tutorial, we will take a look at React Native’s […]

The challenge Writing concurrent programs is hard. Having to deal with threads, locks, race conditions, and so on is highly error-prone and can lead to code that is difficult to read, test, and maintain. Many therefore prefer to avoid multithreading altogether. Instead, they employ single-threaded processes exclusively, relying on external services (such as databases, queues, […]

As modern web applications do more and more on the client-side (the fact itself that we now refer to them as “web applications” as opposed to “web sites” is quite telling), there has been rising interest in client-side frameworks. There are a lot of players in this field but for applications with lots of functionality […]