Written by Joseph Furlott who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. I am a software engineer that specializes in designing and building web applications using React. I work at Datadog as a software engineer.
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React, GraphQL, and Rails
May 24, 2020
Recently, I have been working on a new application that allows Instagram content creators to have a custom webpage-like experience in their…
Releasing Chrona
July 14, 2019
I am very excited to announce Chrona! It is an open source project that I have been working that provides a simple REST interface to…
Handling User Sessions with React Context
April 28, 2019
One of the most fun aspects of starting a new project is getting to work with the latest technologies. This time around we chose to keep…
Tutorial - Setting Up a Simple Isomorphic React app
June 12, 2015
This tutorial is heavily deprecated. Please visit https://medium.com/front-end-developers/handcrafting-an-isomorphic-redux-application-with…
Workflow with Unity
June 02, 2015
Ever since I started using linux in 2006, I have been on the quest for a perfect working environment. I used Gnome and KDE for many years. I…
Tutorial - Continuous Integration with dokku-alt
April 02, 2015
I recently rolled my own continuous integration, and ran into a couple problems that I think others might run in to, as well. It took just a…
Tutorial - Simple Regex Filter with React.js and Immutable.js
April 01, 2015
This tutorial explains how to create a simple regex filter in React. It allows the user to enter text, and have the a table of data…
Tutorial - Setting Up a Single Page React Web App with React-router and Webpack
February 27, 2015
Note: this tutorial assumes React 0.13 and React-Router 0.13. Updates coming soon for the new versions There are many different ways of…
Setting up react-hot-loader
January 31, 2015
Coming from using Browserify in my build tasks and seeing some of the really cool stuff at the React.js conference, I got interested in…
Creating react-styleguide
December 30, 2014
One thing that more web developers should do when building a website is create a styleguide — even if it is only internal. It is great…
Building react-viewport
December 27, 2014
At work I often have trouble taking advantage of using vh and vw units in CSS due to the browser compatibility. Complete lack of or partial…