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React Developer Tooling

Post published:December 11, 2019
Post Author:Oleksii Kulikov
Post Category:JavaScript / React / Tools & Workflows / Web
Post Comments:2 Comments

During React Conf in Las Vegas this year Brian Vaughn, a member of the React JS-core team at Facebook, announced some of the new features and additions to React developer…

How to override styled-components styling with external CSS

Post published:May 2, 2019
Post Author:August Alfredsson
Post Category:React / Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

Styled-components is a wonderful way to style the components in your React project, but using it together with existing CSS can be a bit tricky – especially if you want…

How to open a pdf downloaded from an API with JavaScript

Post published:July 13, 2017
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:JavaScript / Web
Post Comments:65 Comments

On my most recent assignment I was faced with the challenge of downloading a pdf file from an API and displaying it in the browser. Normally, the API would provide a json-object…

Expandable FAQ items with no JavaScript

Post published:July 13, 2017
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:Other / Web
Post Comments:3 Comments

Recently I needed to create an FAQ page on a ReactJS based single page application. The page should have expandible/collapsible question/answer pairs. I took to Google to see how others…

Conference report from ngVikings 2017

Post published:February 16, 2017
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:Events / JavaScript / Other / Web
Post Comments:1 Comment

Since Jayway sponsored ngVikings 2017 I got the opportunity to attend "The main Angular conference in the Nordics", which was a delight. The venue was the main hall of the…

6 Reasons Isomorphic Web Apps is not the Silver Bullet You’re Looking For

Post published:May 23, 2016
Post Author:Gustaf Nilsson Kotte
Post Category:JavaScript / Web
Post Comments:4 Comments

During the last two years, I've heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I've done some thinking myself…

TypeScript, web and the illusive type-safety-advantage

Post published:May 6, 2016
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:.Net / JavaScript / Web
Post Comments:15 Comments

TypeScript makes us .NET developers comfortable with JavaScript. When you come from c#, coding JavaScript feels like walking on a tightrope without a safety net. With TypeScript comes a typesystem, a compiler…

Impressions from Microsoft Build – day 2

Post published:April 2, 2016
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:.Net / Android / Cloud / DevOps / iOS / Java / JavaScript / Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

This year we are three developers representing Jayway at Microsofts Build conference. This blog-post summarizes just some of the stuff we’ve seen on day two of the conference. Microsoft Cognitive…

Impressions from Microsoft Build – day 1

Post published:March 31, 2016
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:.Net / Android / iOS / JavaScript / Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

This year we are three developers representing Jayway at Microsofts Build conference. This blog-post summarizes just some of the stuff we've seen on day one of the conference. Cross-Platform Mobile…

Brace yourself, ASP.NET Core 1.0 is coming!

Post published:February 12, 2016
Post Author:Elizabeth Andrews
Post Category:.Net / Web
Post Comments:11 Comments

I recently did a tech talk and lab session at our latest internal conference here at Jayway and would like to share a summary of its context here in a blog…

Trainee Program

Post published:November 3, 2015
Post Author:Frida Bredberg
Post Category:Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

Just over two months have now passed since we joined the Trainee Program at Jayway. During this time we have all gained many new experiences, including a workshop at the…

Simple load testing using Siege

Post published:October 21, 2015
Post Author:Mattias Lindskog
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Linux / Tips & Tricks / Web
Post Comments:1 Comment

In a recent project we replaced an existing webapp with a new implementation. The old app got around 300 requests/second so we wanted to make sure that the new implementation…

Scaling out with Spring Session

Post published:May 31, 2015
Post Author:Mattias Severson
Post Category:Java / Web
Post Comments:21 Comments

Stateless architecture has become increasingly popular during resent years and for good reasons. However, stateful session based applications continue to play an important role, for example when issuing CSRF tokens…

Configure a Windows Azure cloud service to use your self signed certificates for IIS client certificate mapping authentication

Post published:April 21, 2015
Post Author:Elizabeth Andrews
Post Category:.Net / Cloud / Security / Web
Post Comments:7 Comments

This blog post will explain how to use self signed certificates with a Windows Azure cloud service and how to configure the Azure IIS server by code in the web…

Playing with css animations

Post published:April 10, 2015
Post Author:Anders Poulsen
Post Category:Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

As a full-stack .net web-developer I have been doing a lot of html, css and EcmaScript. Often projects start out with a dedicated front-end developer doing his thing, but normally projects…