Webpack App Breaks When Entrypoints Share Functions or Components
When working on a client's web app, I ran into a strange issue where the app simply wouldn't work if a component was used by more than one Webpack entrypoint.
Keeping models in sync with Reinforced.Typings
Keeping types in sync between the server and the frontend has been something I've obsessed over for most of my dev career. Rediscovering the Reinforced.Typings package has helped me tremendously in apps that have a .NET backend and a TypeScript frontend
Elmish's program.mkSimple versus program.mkProgram
Having spent over a year with F# and Fable at this point, I've avoided Elmish for the entire time, until recently. I found model-view-update architecture a little strange, but what really tripped me up was not understanding the difference between ELmish's program.mkSimple and program.mkProgram.
Quick tips for Dart
Despite a rocky start with Dart, I'm still really enjoying the language. When I get started with any new programming language I like to compile a "Quick Tips" document to help me get around common pitfalls and old manners of thinking. Usually I just leave them to rot in my OneNote app, but for Dart I'm publishing them here.
Quick thoughts on the Dart language.
Recently I tried out the Dart language by building a small OpenFaaS function. Sadly I've decided not to use Dart in production, and this quick post covers some of the reasons why.