Error handling is important for many common operations—from dealing with user input to making network requests. An application shouldn’t crash just because a user enters invalid data or a web service returns a 500. Users expect software to gracefully handle errors, either in the background or with a user-friendly and…
The Play Framework provides a lot of features, which makes it incredibly easy to scale infrastructure. However, scaling a codebase is more difficult. As developers create new components and more complex relationships, the codebase can become unruly for all. To help with this problem, one can use a dependency injection…
Sometimes it seems like functional programmers are a totally different breed. Even by programmer standards, they seem more nerdy than the rest. They use weird terms, such as "monad," "for-comprehension," and "lambda." They use languages that don’t end every line with a semicolon. And, no matter how uneasy Java programmers…
Companies across all industries are increasingly adopting cloud technologies. Naturally, many Visio users move to Lucidchart as they step into a more modern, collaborative, and integrated diagramming environment. To help make their transition as smooth as possible, users can import existing Visio documents into Lucidchart. We’re constantly collecting feedback on…
Recently, I started on a project to migrate JavaScript to TypeScript in one of Lucidchart’s Angular 2 applications. This application has several components, each with its unique view. For those not familiar with Angular 2, a component is merely an encapsulation of a view on a webpage with its associated…
At the beginning of this year, Lucidchart rebuilt its editor in Angular 2. The new editor delivered a better experience with far fewer lines of code. Both engineers and product managers enjoyed it because it made writing features easier. The old (left) and new (right) Lucidchart editor But, there was…
