Monthly Archives: September 2019

These are notes and additions from working through this youtube video. In the video and in the notes below, the AWS CLI is used to configure Lambdas, a Dynamo DB and an API Gateway. Setting up an IAM user Visit the IAM Console and create a ‘Programmatic Access’ user. Add the user to ‘Administrator’ group. […]

Following along some useful youtube videos, I’ve created a cheat sheet below for reference when setting up AWS services using the CLI tools. This post assumes a level of familiarity with basic AWS services through the management console – you should know what a security group is and what an instance is, etc. Youtube videos: […]

Generate a private & public SSH key for the CI server. Paste the private key into circle CI. Grab the key fingerprint from circle CI for later. Paste the public key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys/ on the host. Create a .circleci folder in the root of your project with a config.yml file underneath. Adjust the following circle […]

Everyone knows if there’s a package.json, then you need to npm install to install dependencies for the project. Unless there’s a yarn.lock! When sharing a project around a team this will happen over and over. Share project -> team mate ignores instructions -> generates & checks in a package-lock.json. Packages are resolved differently, different bugs […]

I’m working on a project that consumes WooCommerce API in React Native. To keep everything up to date, use type-hinting, and see dynamic issues *before* I’ve compiled the code, I’m using TypeScript definitions for WooCommerce. Type definitions are supplied for Category, Product, Variation, Attribute, Image. Other less important types are also included (Collection, Dimensions, MetaData, […]

This isn’t a finished article, it’s a work in progress. I’m learning React Hooks, so there may be factually inaccurate information below. Let me know if you know that to be the case! Functional Stateless Components are prerequisite learning to Hooks. Functional components are a function that accepts props and returns a React component. Hooks […]