Lecstor's Blog
Written by Jason Galea from Cairns, Australia.
Full Stack developer specialising in React and NodeJS.
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Code Splitting and Tree Shaking Webpack Gotchya
August 18, 2019TL;DR if you’re building an SPA and plan to use Code Splitting you should ignore tree shaking and structure your modules and imports…
Optimising with React.memo
March 21, 2019Takeaway: keep your memoed components focussed and their props shallow, and prefer simple solutions over complexity. skip to the flip The…
A Journey from Google Cloud Functions to Appengine Flex
February 26, 2019My goal was to deploy a basic React app with a server backend to the Google Cloud Platform. For learnings I decided to use Google Cloud…
Kafka/Protobuf Cheatsheet
January 30, 2019Tools for working with Kafka and Protobufs - all about dumping messages to the console at this point. Kafkacat https://medium.com…
Golang Cheatsheet
January 27, 2019Learning Go, so started recording references to all the useful things I find so I can find them again when I need them.. Install or download…
Go - clear cache
January 26, 2019When trying to run or I was getting errors such as: I boiled it down to something wrong in my setup as I was unable to replicate the…
React does not fire onMouseLeave events on a disabled button
December 22, 2018Posting as this was decently difficult to diagnose while researching and testing 3rd party popover/tooltip components. The button component…
Reusable React Components [WIP]
December 09, 2018Building a reusable component library for your app will speed up development, increase consistency of the UI, and reduce the total download…
Testing Code
March 10, 2018Some thoughts on testing - the what and the how (javascript). Testing The primary reason for writing automated tests is to ensure that your…
Building a PDF writer
February 10, 2017A PDF file is basically a set of object serialised in a specific format similar to PostScript. Our initial goal is to be able to place text…
MongoDB Upgrade 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian
May 13, 2014When upgrading to the latest and greatest MongoDB (2.6) the first thing you have to do is run a check on your databases. Specifically the…
How to create PDF documents
April 21, 2014Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) files have almost become the standard for preparing well-formatted documents. There are PDF readers…
Something about Perl
January 17, 2012Perl is used extensively all over the world in production, doing the job, all the time. Modern Perl takes the solid base that is Perl5 an…
Using Catalyst with a Fat Model
December 04, 2011Today I’m going to talk about using a fat model in Catalyst. When I started using Catalyst and eventually got my head around all the parts…