Finnian's blog

Software Engineer based in New Zealand

View Components, Storybook and Tailwind: The Holy Trinity?

Learn how to setup View Components and Storybook for Ruby on Rails.

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In this post, I’m going to cover the use of some popular open-source technologies, that when combined together provide an extremely powerful developer experience. This will be orientated towards Rails, but it should be possible to swap out View Components with something else for your stack.

Rapid development with Node.js and Docker

Bullet proof guide on how to create tiny Docker images for Node.js in production, configure your dev environment, automate your release cycle and more!

6-Minute Read

I have quite a few Nodejs repos on GitHub and until now I’ve not migrated any of them to Docker because I didn’t really know how. The other day I had a ping on Twitter about the URL shortener I helped complete early this year, so I decided that now was the time to work out the best way to do it:

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