Do you know WordPress, this tool that powers 27% of the web? This big old CMS everyone loves to hate because It’s oldish, it’s PHP and it’s not an SPA? but in the same time, everyone uses because it’s so great at achieving the goal it’s designed for: creating content? Well! It’s time to stop criticizing […]
Author Archives: Riad Benguella
Sorry, I lied. I’m not a noob, never was, never be, neither you do
In a previous post, I told you that we’re all noobs and that we have to continue learning no matter what. Well, I lied! It’s true that you have to keep learning, but you’re not a noob, no one is and here is why. You’re not a noob, you learned how to draw a square […]
GraphQL is not only for Backend
When we hear about GraphQL, it’s often mentioned as the new way to retrieve data from the server. The silver bullet that will replace REST APIs. This is true, GraphQL can do an amazing job to run the new generation of server APIs but this is not the whole picture. From the homepage of the official […]
Awesome Algeria
Now, that I'm back in Algeria. Let's try to build a solid developers community together. A first small step is trying to gather all these hidden developers. For that purpose, I put together an Awesome Algeria repository on GitHub. Our GitHub community is really small, but by gathering, we can encourage collaboration and strengthen this […]
Dure, la vie de dev chez Automattic
TL;DR J’ai rejoint Automattic il y’a quelques semaines, et à travers ce post, je vous fais découvrir une journée de travail classique (ou presque) pour un développeur Lambda chez A8C, en sachant que c’est une société assez atypique puisque tous les employés y travaillent à distance. En espérant vous convaincre de nous rejoindre !! Il […]
When I was a noob
Hymn to criticism and continuous improvement This post is a translation from a very old post of mine but still relevant some years later. In the same time, it’s a reminder for myself. What did I do when I was a noob ? When I was a noob, I used to compare programming languages and trolled […]
How ES6 Generators are changing the way we write Javascript
I have to admit, It took me some time to figure out in which use cases ES6 generators could be really useful (I’m not the only one I think, am I ?). When we talk about ES6 (or ES2015 as you like), generators are not the first feature we think about, we often see them as […]
Redux nowadays : From actions creators to sagas
There’s this expression I say each time I stumble on something (some technology) that’s going to change my habits in development …. Oh, ça déchire sa mère 😛 a not so conventional french alternative to wow that’s great !!!. And you know what, It just happened again. I discovered redux-saga, And I’m like: “Wow this is great, that’s […]
Understand unidirectional data flow by practice: rewrite an AngularJS application
Unidirectional data flow (or sometimes referred to as reactive programming or functional programming) is often seen as this new trend in frontend applications development brought by React and Flux (or by ReactiveX from Netflix). So many developers think using one of these libraries or frameworks is necessary to start with this pattern. This, of course, […]
Frontend application development fairytale (with backend analogy)
In the last three years, frontend development has evolved very quickly. With all this stuff out there (react, angular.js, aurelia, redux, flux, Angular2, Rx.js, falcor…), it became really hard for developers and companies to make choices about the stack to use for their applications. As a developper, I keep asking myself, which technology I’m gonna […]