Blog - Roelof Jan Elsinga

Apache Solr tips for beginners like me

While learning how to use Solr, I’ve come across many things I would’ve like to have known beforehand. So this post is a collection of things that I’ve encountered (and will encounter) that some of you might find helpful to have a solution for as well.

Posted on: August 6th, 2018 itnext.io

apache-solr

Sharing the UI router between AngularJS and Angular 6

While migrating AngularJS to Angular v6, I’ve come to the point where I start to convert entire pages to Angular. For this to work you can downgrade the entire page to an AngularJS directive and component and inject it into the AngularJS UI Router, or you can use a wonderful package I’ve found. Let’s use that package!

Posted on: July 22nd, 2018 itnext.io

angular

Enhance your dynamic website with markdown

Posted on: July 10th, 2018 medium.com

Sharing state between AngularJS and Angular v6 with Redux

In my previous post, about building a hybrid application with AngularJS and Angular v6, I set up the basics of having a working application. But what happens when some actions in one of the frameworks affect the state in the other? Bring in Redux, the centralized state manager.

Posted on: July 4th, 2018 itnext.io

angular

How to start using the terminal

Posted on: June 17th, 2018 medium.com

AngularJS + Angular (v6) hybrid (finally!)

After 2.5 years it's finally time to make this happen! We're upgrading an AngularJS application to Angular (v6+). Follow along and by the end you'll have a working hybrid application.

Posted on: June 1st, 2018

angular

Modernizing log: Part 3, Optimizing GraphQL queries

First, let me refresh your memory about what results I've had so far. The initial situation was as follows:

Posted on: May 2nd, 2018

graphql

An overview of my programming style guide

I'm writing this style guide to make my own code more readable and maintainable. This guide attempts to cover all of the code I write and work with, so it will

Posted on: April 29th, 2018 medium.com

How I reduced the runtime of a Cronjob by 94%

We all need Cronjob for certain automation tasks, but sometimes these tasks take so long that they become a huge burden to you and your ecosystem. I had a Cronj

Posted on: April 26th, 2018

development

Modernizing log: Part 2, GraphQL test results

In the previous log, I mentioned that I had a product page that had too many XHR requests and was overloading the server with a high visitor count. To combat th

Posted on: March 19th, 2018

graphql