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Mocking AWS at the Network Level

(6 min read) We use AWS pretty heavily at Taskless, with their compute-on-demand making it easy for us to scale our bi-directional API Gateway from zero to thousands of concurrent requests with no additional effort. It's truly wonderful; that is, until it's time to write tests. The path most

The End of expo-community-flipper

(3 min read) With the release of Expo 48, expo-community-flipper (gh) (npm) can finally declare its purpose fulfilled. A year ago, I was trying to debug redux inside of the Chrome Debugger and nearly lost my mind. It wasn't just a bad experience. It was an awful experience, defined by console.

Solving a Node.js Memory Leak on Heroku

(6 min read) There's nothing more frustrating that your node.js app leaking memory. If you're coming here because of Heroku R14 / R15 errors, take some deep breaths, it'll be okay. Heroku's smart enough to swap to disk when this happens, and will kill and

Developing React Native with Expo and Flipper

(6 min read) There’s a lot of great React Native modules out there, but most of them require a custom iOS or Android build, leaving “ejecting” as the only option for Expo users. That changed in SDK >42, when Expo added the ability for Expo Application Services to create custom development builds of your app.

Line Numbers in eval

(2 min read) You should never do this. But "never" is a bit too absolute for engineering