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A matter of purity

A matter of purity

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staff

What are pure functions? Why should you even care? [...]

Checked vs unchecked exception (with FP glasses)

Checked vs unchecked exception (with FP glasses)

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staff

The dark side of Unchecked Exceptions [...]

Foundations of a Performing Team

Foundations of a Performing Team

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raffaella rossini
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daniela pavesi

What defines a good team? The "Foundations of a Performing Team" is our shared answer to that question, co-created by our people. A shared map towards excellence. [...]

How to: enable Hermes JavaScript engine in your React Native app

How to: enable Hermes JavaScript engine in your React Native app

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fabrizio duroni
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francesco bonfadelli
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marco de lucchi

React native 0.60.4 has a new cool feature for Android: a new JavaScript engine called Hermes. Let's see how you can turn it on in your React Native application to get all its benefits. [...]

Why is CSS-in-JS no-nonsense?

Why is CSS-in-JS no-nonsense?

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staff

One may agree or disagree with that question but CSS-in-JS is becoming a more popular solution to handle styles for components in code. See how to use it and what is wrong and good in it. [...]

React Native: Native Modules and UIViewController communication on iOS

React Native: Native Modules and UIViewController communication on iOS

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fabrizio duroni

Leverage the power of NSNotificationCenter to implement communication between React Native Native modules (aka bridges) and your native code on iOS [...]

Comonads for booking correlation

Comonads for booking correlation

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emanuele colombo

How can category theory and typeclasses help us in our daily job? Let's see an example of real world usage for the Applicative and Comonad typeclasses. [...]