If you are new to useEffect and hooks, take a deeper dive into useEffect to get a better understanding of the dependency array to minimize renders and optimize effects.

Understanding the useEffect Dependency Array

An in-depth investigation of different react state management options, and how to use each of them to their best ability.

Redux vs. Context vs. State

In part 3 of our reducing js bundle size series, we will take a look into tree shaking, and if it lives up to it's hype. Automatically detect and remove code not used across your project!

Introduction to Tree Shaking

Module swapping gives us the ability to recognize and swap modules at build time. These are often handy to change the module loaded for a specific environment.

Module Swapping for better Development and Testing

If there is some sort of rule/coding standard in place on your project, that rule should be in ESLint. Living documentation is obviously preferable, and if we can put our practices both in clear code and in our editors while programmers are working, they are much more likely to follow the rule that is made.

Using ESLint to speed up code reviews

Simple way to create authentication using react-router and tokens

Building Basic React Authentication: Using hooks and context with react router

Whats the difference, and when to use them.

Quick Glance - Memo vs Memoize

Quick Glance - Optional Chaining

The first strategy we tackle in our series. The goal of minification and dead code elimination is to set up an automated way to remove unnecessary whitespace, shrink variables and function to take up the least bytes, and ultimatly delete unused code.

Reducing JS Bundle Part Two: Minification and dead code elimination

Let's first talk about Javascript bundles. Bundles are usually referring to Javascript and CSS bundles sent from the server to the user's browser. When we discuss it in passing, the primary focus is typically the size of the initial Javascript bundle sent to to the client to initialize the web app, and how that bundle affects the amount of time before a user can use the app.

Reducing JS Bundle Part One: Measurement and high level

What we are looking at today is iOS during our build pipeline. One thing you stumble by a lot is the tricky area of xcode builds. Creating an xcode project from Unity is a pretty trivial task. But, if you would like to run the xcode project archive/export process as part of this build automation pipeline, you may find yourself with missing frameworks, or issues with urlschemes, that fail your build.

Unity and iOS: Whitelisting frameworks and bundle removal

Chocolatey is a package manager, attempting to be in a similar vein as apt-get for Debian. Lets automate a fresh install of our programs

Setting up a clean install of windows with Chocolatey.

Traditionally in Software Development, testing plays an integral role in both the maintainability and quality of the product. Of course, in game development, user acceptance testing is performed frequently. But lets take a look into automated tests!

Unity Testing: The limited approach available

One of the main challenges we encountered when first trying to use JSON with C#, it wasn't the simple world of Javascript we had grown accustomed to.

Unity REST - Part Two

While developing a game, there a number of reasons why you would want to connect to a server. Downloading new assets, such as models, or collecting data from an external source. Downloading bundle assets can be done through your own server, which allows your game to connect to a server and download the most recent versions of bundle assets.

Unity REST - Part One

Javascript doesn't allow object orientation in a [class-based](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-based_programming) style. Rather Javascript accomplishes object orientation using what is known as prototype-based programming.

Denny Scott

Senior Front-end Software Engineer