Architecture
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…