Archive: Development

  • Create Fully Editable Page Caps in WordPress

    Development

    As WordPress’ Gutenberg editor moves closer and closer to a Full Site Editor (FSE), it’s important that we continue to find new and efficient ways for clients to manage all aspects of their sites. This includes allowing clients to manage page…

  • Creating Flexible, Responsive WordPress Gutenberg Layouts

    Development

    We use a grid-based layout approach where we assign columns to span specific widths and the content contained within that column stretches to its parent's bounding box. When asked to build this specific client site on WordPress, this wasn't and still isn't a native feature of Gutenberg. So we fixed…

  • Introducing Angular Waiting Button

    Development

    Ten years on from the introduction of AJAX, the web is now full of asynchronous operations. AJAX itself made those async requests feasible, while Promises have been around for a while now to make handling async responses simple. When working with single-page architecture (SPA) web apps, everything…

  • Simulating Poor Network Conditions with Toxiproxy

    Development

    Naturally, developers build apps in environments where network connectivity isn’t an issue — frequently the connections stay local to the development environment. That’s fine for being efficient while building out code, but it can also lead to a false confidence about the performance of the code in real-world situations.

  • Roundup — Our Missing Communication Tool

    Development

    For the past several years, we have been working to develop a better agile process. We revised everything from how our designers and developers work together to how we communicate feature updates, bug fixes, and deployments to our clients.

  • A Few Tips To Help Manage Git Branches

    Development

    Managing git branches when branching off multiple feature branches can be a pain. What branches have been merged and can any be deleted? Within my first few months at Made By Munsters I came to realize that I needed a better workflow for managing…

  • Thoughts After Building Our First Ionic 2 App

    Development

    One of the most impressive aspects of developing the Ionic 2 app was just how mature and stable both Ionic 2 and Angular 2 were. It came as a surprise; I had expected to run into far more difficulty during this project.

  • Should I be using global or local Sass variables?

    Development

    Sass provides many useful features. It gives web designers and developers the ability to DRY up our code with mixins, maps and loops. It gives us a way to split up large files, but yet still cascade our stylesheets. And most importantly, it gives us variables.