Kim Pham

We explore how to save a response as an environment variable in Postman to save you time and ensure consistency and precision across your tests. 

Harness Postman's Potential: How to Save Responses as Environment Variables

API Gateway

Justin Waldrip

A Step-by-step guide to configure Playwright for E2E testing of Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) and Storefront Reference Architect (SFRA)

Improve E2E Testing for SFCC using Playwright

Software Development

Development

Improve End-to-End Testing for Salesforce Commerce Cloud using Playwright

Learn how developers can leverage the Angular 17 @for() directive using track or trackBy to build more responsive, high-performing web applications.

Deep Dive into Angular 17 @for() Directive: Track and TrackBy

Angular

Deep Dive into Angular 17 @for() Directive: Using Track and TrackBy

We discuss Angular 17 @if() and @for() "block" directives and how they improve performance within internal algorithms and streamline the development process.  

Exploring the New Angular 17 @if() and @for() Directives

Keith Kikta

Tips to customize SFCC order-based promotions with multiple requirements. For example, a promotion that requires a specific product AND has a total order value over a particular dollar amount.

Customizing Order-Level Promotions in Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC)

SalesForce

Cortney Becker

Businesses are turning to Progressive web applications (PWAs) because of their native app-like experiences, functionality, and cost-effective approach to development and maintenance. 

Why Your Business Needs A Progressive Web App

Mobile Application Development

Mobile

The network status of an application is a crucial component of an application and its features. Being aware of any changes to the network status serves as a highly beneficial monitor, especially for UI/UX purposes. 

Dynamic Online/Offline Detection of Network Status with RxJS

RxJS

Fuzzy searches are outstandingly useful and critically important for e-commerce websites and applications. Customers must find what they are looking for on your product pages, or they will quickly go elsewhere.  

Implementing "Fuzzy Search" using Fuse.js

JavaScript

We explore some of the most common and useful transformation operators RxJS offers like mergeMap(), switchMap(), concatMap(), and exhaustMap(). 

Comparing Common RxJS Transformation Operators 

Comparing RxJS Transformation Operators

Whether you’re considering Native applications or Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), each type of application comes with different use cases. PWAs are a baseline. It’s 2022 and your business must have a basic PWA. PWAs are essentially mobile applications built to run inside a web browser typically written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. 

Differences Between PWAs and Native Mobile Apps and Why You Need Both

Fake programmers, catfishing scams, and how to avoid them

Timing operators are a type of Pipeable Operators used to control when an Observable's values will be emitted. To control the flow of emitted values of an Observable, you can use debounceTime(), throttleTime(), sampleTime(), and auditTime() depending on the task at hand. 

Comparing time based operators in RxJS: debounce, throttle, sample, and audit

When it comes to subjects, school subjects are commonly thought of -- math, reading, science. However, in the world of JavaScript, an RxJS Subject is something else entirely.

Understanding RxJS Subjects and their use

Google Sheets allows users to create and format spreadsheets with the capability to edit and collaborate with other people in real-time. One way to extend the power of Google Sheets is with Google Apps Script.

Easy Google Apps Script Tutorial: Understanding Macros, Functions, and Triggers

Here is a quick guide for using the RxJS partition() function in place of if/else statements inside .subscribe(). 

How to use the RxJS partition function

A guide to install typescript in NextJS apps. NextJS allows for developers to use many useful "out-of-the-box" features that would otherwise have to be manually added to the relevant React apps. 

Integrating TypeScript into your NextJS app

Here we take a serverless approach for client who was running on Azure Cloud with databases provided by MongoDB Atlas, and utilized the Azure AKS Kubernetes platform for serving their APIs. Azure Functions seemed like a natural fit.

Deploying Azure Functions using NestJS and Docker

If you are developing an application that needs details about a specific place, Google Maps Platform, can help. We will share helpful tips when using the Geocoding Service and the Places Service. 

Helpful tips when working with Google Maps API

Helpful tips when working with Google Maps API: Geocoding and Places Service

Getting AutoMapper up and running with NestJS is fairly easy. 

Understanding AutoMapper and it's use in a NestJS application

Deploy the local database (single BIN file) along with the NestJS API in order to use geolocation technology to detect latitude/longitude based on IP address.

How to deploy assets alongside your NestJS API

How do you sort documents by price, but ensure the ones with zero (0) or a NULL price values are always sorted LAST in the list?

How to sort ZERO or NULL values LAST in MongoDB

Why choose NestJS vs C# or ASP.NET for back-end API development. It's wide plugin ecosystem makes scaffolding, building, testing and deploying applications easy for Angular developers.

Why your next application should be built on NestJS

Why your next application should be built with NestJS

Cypress now has an experimental flag to enable support for writing tests and targeting items that use Shadow DOM.

Shadow DOM Support for Cypress

Legacy systems need maintenance, complex patching and alterations or else they grow in technical debt. Transform your outdated applications and modernize legacy systems.

Four Ways to Transform Outdated Legacy Systems

Whether you're investing in a custom application, SaaS or Cloud solution, you must weigh your options carefully.

Low-Code, No-Code Revolution in a Custom Software Development World

The Low-Code, No-Code Revolution in a Custom Software Development World

Resolving a dependency inject issue in NestJS by changing the order of the files referenced in an index file.

NestJS: Resolving Dependency Injection

NestJS: Resolving Dependency Injection - The Order Matters

Comparing native, cross-platform, hybrid and PWA mobile applications. What are the pros and cons of each  options.

Comparing Native, Cross-Platform, Hybrid and PWA Mobile Applications

Comparing Native vs Cross-Platform vs Hybrid vs PWA Mobile Applications

Here's the top 7 must-have software development tools we can't code without in 2020. 

7 Popular Developer Tools in 2020

7 Must-Have Developer Tools in 2020

Here is a pattern we use to create a base component for reusable logic between components.