Keyhole Announces Platinum KCDC 2018 Sponsorship & Speakers

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We are pleased to announce that Keyhole Software is a Platinum Sponsor of the 2018 Kansas City Developer Conference! 2018 is Keyhole’s sixth year as a KCDC conference sponsor.

The Kansas City Developer Conference is a Kansas City-based, non-profit software developer conference. The 10th annual KCDC conference will be held from July 11-14th, 2018. Main conference days are Thursday & Friday, July 12th and 13th.

Day one of the conference, Wednesday, July 11th, will be a day of “Pre-Compilers” – optional, full-day, hands-on workshops on a specific topic. July 12th and 13th, the main conference days, will feature one-hour breakout sessions. Additionally, July 14th will host a KC Kids Conference (KC)2….ย 

One Router to Rule Them All: React Router

Mat Warger Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

Previously, we looked at a very basic example of how one can benefit greatly by using community projects such as Formik to avoid the tedium of certain solutions while embracing convention to create composable and scalable applications. We will be build on that foundation to explore the objectively great library that is React Router.

React Router has been at the forefront of routing in the React ecosystem for as long as I can remember. If youโ€™re new to React, this is the way to go when you move state and start needing more options such as parameterized routing, nesting, and conditional rendering. If you have experience with React, this brings a powerful pattern to bear in that everything is a component. It takes the composablity of React and uses that to its benefit, handling any and all use-cases with relative ease.

In this blog, weโ€™ll introduce the basics of the React Router through hands-on examples using its features.

Angular Developer: JavaScript to TypeScript

Chris Shatrov Angular, Articles, JavaScript, React, TypeScript 1 Comment

New JavaScript frameworks and libraries are created every day. This generates a dilemma: which solution should we use when starting a project?

My web development experience over the last few years has mainly included the AngularJS and Backbone.js frameworks. Angular, jQuery and traditional JavaScript have been in my comfort zone. When I ended up being face-to-face with TypeScript, it felt new, scary, and pretty confusing. I want to make that transition easier for you!

The goal of this post is to provide you an understanding of TypeScript, particularly when you come from an Angular web development background. To do so, we will first give an introduction to TypeScript. We will then discuss the differences between the different versions of Angular & Angular vs. React, with an eye for what you need to know to understand the JavaScript tooling landscape TypeScript plays in. And, lastly, weโ€™ll go through a tangible TypeScript example for a look into syntax & structure.

A Conversation About Conversations

David Pitt Articles, Conversational Apps, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Keyhole Creations, Mobile, Node.js, React Leave a Comment

We created a platform that supports developing a โ€œconversationalโ€ type application through SMS. The user experience between a user and an SMS application can be thought of as a conversation. A user texts a question or topic, and a reply is returned, then another question and reply is performed until a desired result is accomplished.

Now, this is not a universal user experience, but for many use cases it can provide an easy to deliver users functionality quickly and conveniently. There is no need to install or download apps, or pop open a browser and type in a URL; just have a conversation through your texting app.

In this blog: Why conversational applications are handy, examples of conversational applications we have created, and a walkthrough of the application architecture used to develop those SMS applications. Includes how to make texting a richer experience, state, and session handling insights.