BP’s Daily Digest #15 — a Chrome extension for Medium, Spring Native, and more
Welcome to the 15th edition of Coffee Bytes, a daily digest by Better Programming.
In this issue, we’ve got an end-to-end guide to build chrome extensions for Medium stats, a little-known Node.js feature for error-handling, Spring Native, a comprehensive look at asynchronous programming in Python, lots of code and non-code-related advice.
Programming
How to Develop React Chrome Extension for Medium in 26 Steps
From building to deploying — Bartosz has created a Medium Any Author stats Chrome extension. From idea to publishing in the chrome web store — Bartosz shows how exactly to create the extension using React and TypeScript.
By Bartosz Salwiczek — 16 min read
Software Engineering
How to Integrate Spring Native Into Spring Boot Microservices
Through a hands-on tutorial, this story gives a better understanding of what Spring Native is, its pros and cons, and its super promising future. Is Spring Native the wings that can make Spring Boot fly?
By Wenqi Glantz — 10 min read
Web Dev
Power up your Node.js debugging and error handling with the new Error cause feature
A new feature named “Error cause” was recently introduced in Node.js and in browsers. So, starting with node 16.9.0, we can add a cause to our error constructor. Know how to do it.
By Moaad FATTALI — 4 min read
Python
An Introduction to Asynchronous Programming in Python 3
Takeaways from this story:
- Core vocabulary of async programming
- When an asynchronous approach makes sense
- The basics of async code in Python 3
- Useful resources for further investigation
By Samuel Cook — 10 min read
Android Dev
Modeling Retrofit Responses With Sealed Classes and Coroutines
This post covers how to model Retrofit responses with Coroutines and Sealed classes to reduce code complexity and make your application architecture consistent.
By Jaewoong Eum — 7 min read
iOS Dev
FirestoreQuery and SwiftUI: The easiest way to listen for real-time updates
Firebase was made available via Swift Package Manager recently, and there’s a lot of new APIs that came out for SwiftUI with that particular release. Today, I want to walk us through a few, but really one in particular: @FirestoreQuery(collection:).
By Brianna — 5 min read
Work Advice
Guide to Micromanagement
This story explains precisely what micromanagement is and how it can manifest itself within teams, then move on to tips for identifying it and, importantly, escaping it.
By Marcus Knight — 7 min read
