JavaScript Bake-Off: Angular, React, and Vue

David Pitt Angular, Articles, JavaScript, Opinion, React, Single-Page Application, Vue.js Leave a Comment

As Keyhole consultants, we are exposed to a plethora of technology stacks and implementations from client project to client project. Particularly with our enterprise clients, great care must go into selecting the best technologies for the companyโ€™s technical needs and current landscape. After all, they donโ€™t want to be re-writing the same application in just a couple of years due to lackluster choices and shortage of developers to add functionality.

In this post, we present an open source reference application developed three times using three different frameworks, React, Vue & Angular.

Release: Hyperledger Blockchain Analytics Tool

Keyhole Software Articles, Blockchain, Company News, Development Technologies & Tools, Hyperledger, Java, JavaScript, Keyhole Creations, Node.js, React Leave a Comment

We are proud to announce the new release of a Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Browser open source web application. This application utility allows developers and operators of Hyperledger blockchain networks to have visibility into transactions and blocks as they are added to the network.

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The KHS Blockchain Browser is a React/Node.js web application that…

Improving Performance in React Applications

Adrienne Gessler Articles, Design, JavaScript, React 2 Comments

Letโ€™s say youโ€™ve stepped into a React application to make some updates or been involved in building one yourself. You have been at it a while, and feel somewhat comfortable using React, you understand Reactโ€™s lifecycle and you may be using React libraries like Redux or MobX to some extent.

As with any technology, you start to notice that a few of the pages are looking a little slow. You know performance tuning too early is often a bad idea, but you feel like you might be at that point. After all, in your experience, end users notice even small lags and no one wants that. So what do you do now?

In this blog, I introduce six tips for improving performance and design in your React application.

State Management with MobX and React

Nick Brown Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

There are many options when it comes to managing the state of a React application. Choosing the right one for your application can feel daunting.

The most popular choice, Redux, is often thought of as verbose because it requires a lot of boilerplate code, thus slowing down development. Redux is also very opinionated so it will take time for those unfamiliar with its functional programming paradigm to become comfortable with it.

In this blog, weโ€™ll take a closer look at an alternative that aims to solve issues in React application state: MobX. To do that, I built a simple calorie counter application that will be used to showcase MobX in use.

Getting Started with React and JSX

Chris Shatrov Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

I have been with Keyhole Software for nearly four years. Every time I write a new blog post it is about a new framework that I had to pick up and learn that year.

I write a lot of JavaScript daily, but previously never had the chance to start coding a project with React. But this year, I worked on a project with React. So as expected, I wanted to share my thoughts and my experiences with React.

In this post, I will give a quick introduction to React and talk about its main, most important, components. We will also take a peek at JSX and explain it, and show some code examples, which will help you have a better understanding of this library before you can move on to more complex things…