Futurice Tech Weeklies

A lot of times, when working with a client, you either inherit or interact with a REST API that turns your hair gray. Changing endpoints, undocumented methods, flaky return values, and other surprises make you wish that you had chosen a more pleasant career like lion taming or sword swallowing.

In this tech talk, we will present Unmock, an open-source JavaScript and Python integration testing library that makes working with external APIs delightful. You’ll leave with lots of practical recommendations and code snippets that you can bring to new or existing projects to accelerate development, ease communication, and win more business.

 

Presenter: Mike Solomon from Meeshkan

A lot of times, when working with a client, you either inherit or interact with a REST API that turns your hair gray. Changing endpoints, undocumented methods, flaky return values, and other surprises make you wish that you had chosen a more pleasant career like lion taming or sword swallowing.

In this tech talk, we will present Unmock, an open-source JavaScript and Python integration testing library that makes working with external APIs delightful. You’ll leave with lots of practical recommendations and code snippets that you can bring to new or existing projects to accelerate development, ease communication, and win more business.

Presenter: Mike Solomon from Meeshkan

React and Redux are told to embrace Functional Programming (FP) but nothing comes enforced nor explained. Those seeking better FP solutions often come to Elm (A strictly typed purely functional language used for Frontend apps), but it remains a hard sell for the client or employer. Everyone wants “just React.” But today it is possible to get a more FP-like experience using some off-the-shelf libraries and TypeScript configuration. 

Topics covered: Redux-loop middleware, the RemoteData pattern from Elm, the Maybe / Just / Nothing monad

Presenter: James Stone

React and Redux are told to embrace Functional Programming (FP) but nothing comes enforced nor explained. Those seeking better FP solutions often come to Elm (A strictly typed purely functional language used for Frontend apps), but it remains a hard sell for the client or employer. Everyone wants “just React.” But today it is possible to get a more FP-like experience using some off-the-shelf libraries and TypeScript configuration. 

Topics covered: Redux-loop middleware, the RemoteData pattern from Elm, the Maybe / Just / Nothing monad.

Presenter: James Stone

You spend your days writing code, most likely a RESTful backend or a client consuming said backend. You’ve done this before, and you’re going to do this again. In the heat of the project it’s easy to forget to note all the things you did well and the things you could improve for next time. 

 

In this talk I’ll list some of the best practices that have stuck with me on how to build a RESTful backend. We’ll cover general advice applicable to any technology choice as well as some practical examples using the Play Framework and Scala programming language.

 

Presenter - Oskar Ehnström

You spend your days writing code, most likely a RESTful backend or a client consuming said backend. You’ve done this before, and you’re going to do this again. In the heat of the project it’s easy to forget to note all the things you did well and the things you could improve for next time. 

 

In this talk I’ll list some of the best practices that have stuck with me on how to build a RESTful backend. We’ll cover general advice applicable to any technology choice as well as some practical examples using the Play Framework and Scala programming language.

 

Presenter - Oskar Ehnström

Browsers can save any website as a PDF, so why should we use a server-side pdf generator to provide PDFs to our users? This talk by Judith explores the browsers ability to generate PDF documents with repeating headers, footers and page numbers and how we can apply these learnings to make a normal website more printer friendly.

 

Presenter - Judith Hartmann

Browsers can save any website as a PDF, so why should we use a server-side pdf generator to provide PDFs to our users? This talk by Judith explores the browsers ability to generate PDF documents with repeating headers, footers and page numbers and how we can apply these learnings to make a normal website more printer friendly.

Presenter - Judith Hartmann

Redux is a great solution for managing application-level state that we use in a lot of our projects, for good reason. However, it does not provide any guidance for organizing application logic. In this talk, Denis shares a declarative approach to integrating logic into Redux apps that is well encapsulated, easy to test, and applicable to various use cases.

Presenter: Denis Washington

Redux is a great solution for managing application-level state that we use in a lot of our projects, for good reason. However, it does not provide any guidance for organizing application logic. In this talk, Denis shares a declarative approach to integrating logic into Redux apps that is well encapsulated, easy to test, and applicable to various use cases.

Presenter: Denis Washington