There’s plenty of ways to do make API calls from within a Svelte app but I’d like to share the approach that’s worked for me. Demo: Svelte REPL — Demo Prerequisites First things first, start a new Svelte app. Check out Svelte’s official Getting Started guide for that. Getting Started This tutorial will…

A co-worker showed me Mermaid the other day and it’s changed how I diagram forever. As a tech lead, I constantly have to create sequence and flow diagrams to show how an application works/should work. Typically, I’ve used WYSIWYG diagram software and it’s worked but there’s a lot that’s annoying…

I started using Svelte a couple of months ago for my Peloton Metrics project with the promise that it would lead to a simple development process. I’ve used React in the past for enterprise-level applications but it always seemed like overkill for what I was doing in my spare time…

Every once in awhile, I get the chance to look at some code I wrote in the past. Last week afforded me this chance as a coworker sent me a message and said, “Look whose name is on this changelog!”. Sure enough, it was some front end code I had…