Switch statements replace long if-else chains. They make it easy to return different results depending on the value of some variable. Also, they are commonly used in React if you want to render different elements depending on the current state of your application. And that’s perfectly fine. Problems arise as…

I started playing around with Flutter a few weeks ago and implemented my first demo app. You can find my first impressions and thoughts in this blogpost. As Flutter is mainly known to be a cross mobile os app framework, obviously this was also the first thing for me to try…

React has been my favorite front end technology for almost four years now. I have also worked with Angular JS, Angular >= v2, Vue.js and some Java based front end frameworks, but I fell so deeply in love with React that for a long time I simply didn’t want to…

Introduction This is the second post in our blog post series about validating, scaling and evolving a full stack web application utilizing state of the art technologies as managed services in the cloud, serverless and modern web frameworks. To read more about the overall plan find the first post here. Our…

In my previous post “Consider Serverless for your Pet Projects” I wrote about some benefits of writing and hosting Serverless applications in comparison to the conventional way of using Virtual Machines in the Cloud. …

In this blog post I always refer to AWS and its services like Lambda, S3 and ApiGateway. Everything explained here, also applies to other Cloud-Computing-Providers, as long as they provide some kind of FaaS (Function as a Service) What is Serverless? For as long as there is software, developers invent abstraction layer on…

React hooks are released for some months now. Everyone is writing good looking functional components, uses useState instead of this.state, useEffect for life cycle management and so on and so forth. In many articles and tutorials you heard that you can even write your own hooks. But do you know…