Development

React

Conditional Rendering in React

Hide your conditional content with a component.

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React

Higher-Order Components with React & TypeScript

Get the types right on your React HoCs in TypeScript.

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ASP.NET Core

Post-Logout Redirect with ASP.NET Core and ADFS 2016

Make post_logout_redirect_uri work with ADFS

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.NET Core

Find .NET Core packages in all projects

In a quick aide-memoire for next time I need to use it: here's a Powershell snippet that will return a list of all unique package names in all .NET Core projects under the current folder.

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ASP.NET Core

Generic behaviour in ASP.NET Core with Action Filters

Everyone hates copy/pasting code, and Action Filters in ASP.NET Core MVC offer a great way to avoid filling your controllers with boilerplate

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Opinion

Stop Agonising Over Tiny Details

I recently started a new side project using React and - having not used React in anger before - wanted to get off on the right foot...

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Opinion

Finding Freedom in "JavaScript Fatigue"

A lot of people have spoken about "JavaScript fatigue": the idea that there are so many new frameworks, tools and ideas available to the average JavaScript developer that it`s impossible to keep up...

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Typescript

Cleaning up Resources using MutationObserver

Let's say you've written a shiny new component in your favourite framework and somewhere along the way you've allocated a resource that cannot be automatically cleaned up by the browser.

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ASP.NET

Supporting SignalR Client Handlers after Connection Start

In general, when you create a new SignalR connection you are obliged to have already defined any of your handlers on the hub object...

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Unit Testing

Moq-ing Dynamics

This post serves as a reminder to myself...largely because I have wasted time tracking this down twice now!

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