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Ensure code quality; create your own ESLint rules Introduction We used ESLint rules to enhance code quality. This article is about how one would proceed to create one's own custom rule. We used this procedure at Theodo to make sure our frontend…

Why build a CMS driven showcase website? Here you are, you just started a project to build the latest shiny showcase website for your client. Now comes the difficult part: you want to offer your client the best bang for his…

This guide is for developers who have basic familiarity with Django, and Stripe Subscriptions with Elements (not Stripe Checkout). If you're unfamiliar with these, do check the links. Subscriptions with ElementsSubscription objects flowchart as shown on the Stripe website Stripe has a…

Here we assume you correctly set up Sentry. Both your front-end and your back-end are able to send errors to Sentry and you set up Sentry releases (https://docs.sentry.io/workflow/releases/?platform=javascript). Checkpoints This is what we'll want to achieveALL unexpected behaviours (bugs) are captured in…

In a web application, performance is as important as any functional feature. In my current project, we experienced troubles with this aspect as we handled big databases with complex models and relationships. It worked fine when we tested the product…

Stripe is a third party API that specialises in providing a quick and easy to scale payments infrastructure for the internet. As of December 2020, Stripe lets you implement payment processing on your platform in the form of one time…

In this post, I try to be as clear as possible to explain how to give Internet Access to your AWS resources if they are in an AWS VPC. For the most curious and those who like to understand things…

I have set-up an automatic pipeline to share our design system's style guide:from Figma with a homemade plugin on which our designers work to our web apps on which developers workI'd like to share with you why I think this is…

Cover photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash -- Monday, 10am. You're around a table with a new team, looking at a product owner presenting the project you'll be working on for the next few months. While this project wouldn't be the core…

As of November 13, 2019, GitHub Actions became publicly available. We have tested the automation solution from GitHub, often sold as a new CI/CD pipeline alternative. Let's see how it fares compared to its competitors, and whether you should switch…