Patrick Desjardins Blog

TypeScript transpiles your code into JavaScript.

TypeScript added the keyword override with version 4.3.

In short, the term "Ergonomic Brand Checks" is linked to branding.

An improvement with TypeScript 4.5 compared to 4.4 is the ability to discriminate on a dynamically constructed type with a pattern.

Many projects require to have configurations.

Before TypeScript version 4.5, there was a unexpected type conversion happening with Promise.

TypeScript version 4.4 gives the possibility to have a static block inside a class.

JavaScript as a way to key-value in a dictionary/map way that is very flexible.

TypeScript allows variables to be of several types.

The CAP theorem consists of three characteristics that are pillars to distributed system.

For several years, when I was looking back at what I accomplished during the year, I had the feeling that it was another year that had beaten all my previous ones.

In 2017, I decided to adhere to .

Automation is vital for delivering a product of consistent quality.

The topic of this article follows the recent topic of .

Communication between React's components is natural using the properties of each component.

Coming from writing my blog articles on WordPress, I was rapidly disappointed that I couldn't write down a blog article in advance.

When I renewed my VPS account for the year, I realized something: I do not have much going on anymore.

For some reason, I am always copying a previous React Context before creating a new one.

I wrote a recapitulative in and skipped in 2019.

Working from home can be challenging for many reasons.

Since few years (, I dress a list of books that I read.

I am running a GraphQL server hosted with NodeJS.

I joined at the end of 2017 with the idea to expand my knowledge in an area I am interested: machine learning.

I have been working in a GraphQL solution at Netflix for few months now.

I will demonstrate a way to configure a continuous environment that gives insight on if a change on the GraphQL server can impact negatively a consumer.

Imagine the scenario that you have a GraphQL schema that is consumed only by engineers of your organization.

UseCallback allows having the same reference for a call back function which has the benefit of only changing when something changes.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to use .

Implementing a service that covers many systems might be frightful in term of data exposition.

In this article I'll cover two different approach concerning rendering information coming from a GraphQL server in React while being strongly typed.

The more my graph was increasing, the more resolvers I built.

One strength of GraphQL is that it has types.

A small entry about Docker.

In the last few months, I have been implementing a GraphQL server in TypeScript and NodeJS using Apollo.

By default, Apollo GraphQL middleware install the server in Express under the same URL.

The technic I will demonstrate in this article comes from what I was using with the traditional React and Redux.

In this article, we will discuss about two topics that concern resolvers and performance.

There is a lot of keyword in the title but this is not a clickbait, we will setup without too much burden a simple configuration that will allow Visual Studio Code (VsCode) to hook into a GraphQL installation.

Resolvers can perform asynchronous call to fetch data.

A part of me wish that the flexibility of GraphQL would extend further in term of parameter to a query.

GraphQL has a mechanism to pass information to every resolver.

In the I demonstrate how easy is to setup the playground.

Apollo comes with a handy playground.

This is the second post about my journey on prototyping a GraphQL service to abstract all REST and gRPC services that we have at Netflix Open Connect.

I recently started an initiative about GraphQL for Netflix Open Connect.

In a fast-paced life, we often lose track of all accomplishments realized thorough the year.

Here is the list of book I read in 2018.

I am taking online classes for my .

An interesting challenge with web development is the unlimited different combination of width and height that people can consume the application.

I wrote several months ago about .