Progressively Enhancing Form Submissions with Web Components

Progressively Enhancing Form Submissions with Web Components

Web applications should work without JavaScript. Use web components to progressively enhance your app.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 6 mins

Kill It with Fire: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Marianne Bellotti on her book, Kill It with Fire, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 64 mins

Kill It with Fire: Begin Book Club

Typings for Architect Functions

Architect's Node.js runtime helpers, @architect/functions v5.2, includes bundled type definitions. These typings offer several benefits to both TypeScript and JavaScript developers.

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Taylor Beseda

read time 2 mins

Typings for Architect Functions

Validating POST Data Against JSON Schema

A new package to help validate incoming POST requests

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Simon MacDonald

read time 3 mins

Validating POST Data Against JSON Schema

Forms that work. Every time. Everywhere.

Progressive enhancement for HTML Forms

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Ryan Bethel

read time 9 mins

Forms that work. Every time. Everywhere.

Modern Software Engineering: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Dave Farley on his book, Modern Software Engineering, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 45 mins

Modern Software Engineering: Begin Book Club

CSS Grid and Web Components are two great technologies that go great together

Not unlike the combination of chocolate and peanut butter, CSS Grid and Web Components are two great technologies that go great together.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 5 mins

CSS Grid and Web Components are two great technologies that go great together

The Jamstack Book: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Ray Camden and Brian Rinaldi on The Jamstack Book you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 54 mins

The Jamstack Book: Begin Book Club

Rendering HTML from Markdown in a Cloud Function

Skip the build step: dynamically parse Markdown and render to HTML right on the server. Respond to an HTTP request by loading a .md file, transforming the Markdown source, and returning HTML.

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Taylor Beseda

read time 5 mins

Rendering HTML from Markdown in a Cloud Function

Why I no longer use Static Site Generators

Static Site Generators (SSG) are an excellent solution for building web applications where the content does not change frequently. However, as your website's scope increases, either by additional content or dynamic functionality, issues begin to pop up.

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Simon MacDonald

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Why I no longer use Static Site Generators

Kill It with Fire the Begin Book Club July Selection

In July we'll be meeting with Marianne Bellotti to discuss her book "Kill It with Fire".

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Simon MacDonald

read time 2 mins

Kill It with Fire the Begin Book Club July Selection

Using GitHub Actions with Architect

GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline. We’ve recently created some composite actions to test every pull request to your repository and deploy tagged releases to production.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 2 mins

Using GitHub Actions with Architect

Astro SSR on Lambda with Architect

Astro released an experimental SSR feature with an adapter API. To integrate with the Lambda runtime, we'll map API Gateway events to Astro Requests and return proper API Gateway result.

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Taylor Beseda

read time 4 mins

Astro SSR on Lambda with Architect

Automating email reminders with scheduled functions

Are there any repetitive tasks in your life that would benefit from automation? I run a weekly ice hockey game, and even though it is at the same place and time every week, the dummies that I play with still need a weekly reminder email. So I decided to create a scheduled function to send out that weekly reminder for me.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 4 mins

Automating email reminders with scheduled functions

Using OAuth to protect Architect routes

An Architect plugin to ease some of the pain and boilerplate of authentication while avoiding an expensive third-party authentication provider.

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Ryan Bethel

read time 5 mins

Using OAuth to protect Architect routes

Storage and Deno and database seeding, oh my!

We've recently released some updates to Begin to make your developer experience even better, and we've decided we need to celebrate them.

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Simon MacDonald

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Storage and Deno and database seeding, oh my!

Building Functional Web Apps with Redis

In this tutorial, we'll use Begin to quickly develop a to-do list application. We'll use AWS Lambda as our serverless platform and Redis Enterprise Cloud as our database provider.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 9 mins

Building Functional Web Apps with Redis

Don't `npm install` your way to success: a different way of thinking about dependencies

The intention of this post is to demonstrate a different approach to adopting and using dependencies.

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Ryan Block

read time 8 mins

Don't `npm install` your way to success: a different way of thinking about dependencies

What I’ve learnt building plugins for Architect 10

Architect community member Andy Buckingham stops by to talk about the benefits of the Architect plugin API and what he's been able to build with it.

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Andy Buckingham

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What I’ve learnt building plugins for Architect 10

The Coding Career Handbook: Begin Book Club

If you missed out on our meet up with Shawn (Swyx) Wang on the Coding Career Handbook you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.

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Simon MacDonald

read time 47 mins

The Coding Career Handbook: Begin Book Club