Arkency

The book is about improving the process of working on a software application. Wait, but isn’t that what Agile is all about? Yes, but we want to take you further than the standard, classic Agile techniques that you already probably embraced (at least partially). We are talking about soft skills and technical procedures, because both of them can bring you benefits when applied properly.

Do you think you are too busy for blogging? What if I tell you, you are not. Alpha version. 38 pages right now.

A step-by-step guide how to improve your Rails controllers in a quick and safe way. The techniques described in this book will help you reduce the test time, increase the time to add new features and will make you proud of the codebase. Introducing service objects is an often recommended technique to improve the situation. Most of the blog posts in the Internet focus on simple situations, which are far from real-life Rails code. This book aims to fill the gap and teach you step-by-step how to introduce services in the typical situations.

The book is a set of techniques you can apply to your both new or legacy code. You’ll learn:

• How to make your frontend more independent and boost your frontend-first development speed by introducing UUIDs instead of sequential IDs generated by Rails. A step-by-step, database-agnostic, legacy-ready solution is presented.
• How to avoid very often headaches while migrating assets to a different domain by knowing what is CORS, how it works and how to configure it correctly in Rails.
• How to stop inventing your own response formats and waste time by implementing the JSON API industry standard, making your API ready for even the wildest of features.
• How to create a real-time API by implementing the real-time messaging bus and making it indistinguishable from user actions. This is the most maintainable solution I’ve encountered in the wild so far.
• How to get your thinking about frontend on the higher level by knowing and understanding consequences of your frontend decisions.
• How to build a modern asset pipeline using Node.js tools instead of Sprockets. This way you can use today technologies in an easy way. This is a step-by-step guide with explanations of every tool you’ll use. After the process you’ll have an environment ready for production builds, testing and using the newest standard of JavaScript.

It consists of ~100 pages of the exclusive content, as well as bonus chapters which is a set of blogposts we’ve created through years which can be handy for you inside this book - totalling 154 pages.

• 19-20 September
• Wrocław, Poland
• In English

Learn react today. Ship awesome dynamic visual components. Know how to test them and keep your frontend modular.

A complex review of your React.js component by the Arkency's experts

The best way to learn React.js (+ES6) is to learn from people who are already experienced. The book contains several example UI widgets - each of them makes a chapter. Each chapter shows a way thinking of the developer who created the example code. This book package contains codebases for most of the examples. They are all ready to run and experiment with.

Buy yourself an hour of consulting session with React.js and JavaScript experts. You'll get:

* Code review - you'll get your code checked and we'll discuss how it can be improved by employing React.js best practices.

* Pair programming - we can pair program with you and navigate you through the process of implementing a feature.

* Send materials that will be useful for you after our session. 

* You can ask us anything about JavaScript, tooling and architecture. We'll be happy to guide you!