The React useState hook is a great way to persist state inside the context of a component in React. This post demonstrates a simple React hook that stores state in the URL querystring, building on top of React Routers useSearchParams hook.

Logs matter. In Azure, logs generally live in Application Insights, in the Transaction Search section. This post reverse engineers the Azure Application Insights Transactions URL, and details how to construct a link to take you directly there, using both TypeScript and C#.

Swashbuckle can fail to generate a swagger / Open API document with the message "The same schemaId is already used...". This post explains what that means, and offers a way to work around it.

Terry Pratchett is remembered on the internet. A non-standardised HTTP header: X-Clacks-Overhead is broadcast by websites seeking to pay tribute to the great man. This post shows how we can make Azure Static Web Apps join in.

Build validations are a great way to protect your branches in Azure DevOps. It's possible to use the Azure DevOps API to acquire the build validations a project uses. This post shows you how using curl and the Node.js API.

Azure Static Web Apps presently have an issue which blocks deployment of Azure Functions with the message "Failed to deploy the Azure Functions". This happens when the resource is tagged with an EnvironmentId tag and is discussed in this GitHub issue. There is a workaround which we will examine.

This post shows how to build and deploy two Azure Container Apps using Bicep and GitHub Actions. These apps will communicate using dapr's publish & subscribe (pubsub) building block.

As part of the TypeScript 4.7 release comes a major upgrade to ECMAScript Module Support for Node.js. This post takes a look at what that means.

Azure Static Web Apps presently fixes to Node.js 14 when building. If you require a different version of Node to build, this can be a problem. This post outlines a workaround.

Azure Static Web Apps have just released a new feature for Azure DevOps users called "named preview environments". They allow users to deploy changes to an environment, prior to merging.

The upgrade of the React type definitions to support React 18 involved some significant breaking changes. This post digs into that and examines what the upgrade path looks like.

Recently, a new ECMAScript proposal called "Type Annotations" (originally named "Types as Comments") was revealed. The purpose is to allow type annotations to be valid JavaScript syntax. Albeit syntax that is ignored by JavaScript engines. The proposal is being worked on by Gil Tayar, Daniel Rosenwasser, Romulo Cintra, Rob Palmer, and others. Many of these people are from TypeScript community - however this proposal intentionally does not exist to benefit TypeScript alone.

ESLint provides a great linting experience for TypeScript and JavaScript in VS Code. The suggestions, fixes and ignore options make creating clean code a joy. A similar experience is available for C# in VS Code through Roslyn Analyzers - this post tells us more.

Private Azure Artifact feeds in in Azure DevOps can be used to serve NuGet packages. To build applications both locally and in an Azure Pipeline using those packages, there are a few steps to follow which this post will demonstrate.

Lighthouse is a tremendous tool for auditing the performance and usability of websites. Rather than having to perform these audits manually, it's helpful to be able to plug it into your CI pipeline. This post illustrates how to integrate Lighthouse into a GitHub Actions workflow for an Azure Static Web App, and report findings directly in pull requests that are raised.

For API endpoints that return multiple types, you can use inheritance with Swashbuckle to get create a Swagger / Open API definition featuring the variety of available types. Serving all these types is not the default behaviour. This post shows you how to opt in.

Jamstack sites have taken the world by storm. There's currently fierce competition between offerings like Netlify and Cloudflare. A new player in this space is Azure Static Web Apps. This post will look at what working with SWAs is like and will demonstrate deploying one using GitHub Actions.

If you'd like to improve the performance of a Docusaurus website by implementing native lazy-loading of images, you can. This post shows you how you too can have <img loading="lazy" on your images by writing a Rehype plugin.

This post shows how to build and deploy two Azure Container Apps using Bicep and GitHub Actions. These apps will communicate using dapr, be built in VS Code using a devcontainer. It will be possible to debug in VS Code and run with docker-compose.

This follows on from the previous post which built and deployed a simple web application to Azure Container Apps using Bicep and GitHub Actions using the GitHub container registry.

When we're using custom fonts in our websites, it's good practice to preload the fonts to minimise the flash of unstyled text. This post shows how to achieve this with Docusaurus.