Putting your strings to work: Make your SKU strings more meaningful
In this post, we’ll show you how to give more meaning to a simple string and use it to query data in a Ruby on Rails app. In other words, we’re putting our strings to work.
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Things We Learned: December 2021 Edition
Back again with the latest from KD Squad's Slack: Things We Learned. We've been dropping new and/or interesting links in our #til Slack channel, so we thought it'd be nice to collect them in a post and send out a monthly summary.
Things We Learned: November 2021 Edition
We're starting a new series direct from the KD Squad's Slack: Things We Learned. We've been dropping new and/or interesting links in our #til Slack channel, so we thought it'd be nice to collect them in a post.
Customize Stimulus Attributes, Avoid Conflicts
Stimulus is all about giving you front-end functionality with minimal JavaScript fuss and weight, but in certain cases, its data attributes can run into conflict with other libraries. I've recently made a pull request to add this to their docs, but for anyone else who's encountered this conflict, a little reconfiguration of the library's schema can keep your Stimulus implementation conflict-free.
Being RESTful about your routes
In this post, we'll show you how to keep your Rails application maintainable for the long run by following the REST design principles. There’s no need to make Rails routes difficult — REST easy!
A Newcomer’s Perspective on Rails
Understanding the full stack of modern day cloud applications is becoming more and more challenging. From a newcomer’s perspective I’d like to share a few ways Rails can boost productivity and ease some of the challenges of being a full stack engineer.
Accounting in an eCommerce World
Understanding your business financially is more important than ever in a changing eCommerce environment. We'll cover a few hot topics in today's eCommerce world, from what accounting software to use and information integration to what the deal is with sales tax.
Gifts So They Keep On Giving
While we're showing friends and family we care at a distance, it's a good time for those selling gifts online to shine. Here are some of our tips for tuning up the user experience when shipping to multiple recipients in a single order.
Eight Things I Learned About iOS Development in 2020
From Auto Layout to SwiftUI, things are changing in iOS development. I say it's for the better. Here are eight things I learned from building an app in 2020.
Expose webpack-dev-server’s websockets using ngrok tunnels
We do quite a bit of Shopify App development around here. Most of our apps use a Rails backend using webpacker with a Polaris embedded app. When developing, it’s nice to have livereload setup even when the app you’re working on is embedded.
DIY Shopify Data Warehouse – No Coding Required
Building a data warehouse used to involve months of effort, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in development costs, and an expert who knew how to interpret the data. No more!