"Correctly" Unit Testing Express With Rescript And Zora

August 7, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

In a recent article I introduced rescript-zora, a library I wrote for unit testing Rescript code with lightning fast responses. One drawback of zora is that it’s very minimal. In this article, I explore some design principles and go on a bit of a rant about the definition of the word “unit”.

Quickly Testing Rescript With Zora

August 2, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

I wrote Rescript bindings to the zora test framework and wanted to write about how to actually use them.

Syncing RxDB changes to GraphQL Mutations in Rescript

June 27, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

Continuing my explorations of RxDB and Rescript, this article hooks up mutations to allow RxDB to automatically sync its offline-enabled changes to the graphql server.

Syncing RxDB changes from a graphql server in Rescript

June 6, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

I’ve become quite comfortable in Rescript over the course of the past few months. So far in this long-running series, I’ve implemented an RxDB powered offline-enabled application in Rescript. I’ve also written a graphql server using express. In this article, we’ll connect the two so that the RxDB frontend can sync with the graphql database.

Graphql Endpoints to sync with RxDB in Rescript (Part 2)

May 23, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

In the previous article we implemented the sync read endpoints between our graphql server and our RXDB client. In this one, we’ll hook up the mutations.

Graphql Endpoints to sync with RxDB in Rescript (Part 1)

May 15, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

Now that our Rescript client and server have the same data model, we can hook up the graphql endpoints to sync the offline rxdb database with the graphql server.

Announcing: Python Object-oriented Programming, 4th Edition

May 12, 2021 in Python, General

My publisher recently unveiled the fourth edition of Python Object-oriented Programming. This one has a new twist: I didn’t write it!

Quickly refactoring with Rescript

May 8, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

Continuing my ongoing series on the Rescript programming language, I discovered I needed to refactor my backend to better suit the graphql queries the frontend has to make to it.

A GraphQL Server in Rescript

May 2, 2021 in Programming, Learning, Rescript

Rescript is a delightful programming language pulling in the best elements of Javascript and functional languages without the worst bits of either. In this article, we create a graphql server in Rescript.

Introducing rescript-zora

April 18, 2021 in Programming, Rescript

Instead of writing a new article on Rescript this weekend, I ended up writing an entire project in Rescript!

rescript-zora provides Rescript bindings to the lightning-fast zora unit testing framework. I chose zora because it has excellent SEO for “fastest javascript test framework”, and it deserves it.

Dusty Phillips