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React, Firebase, and Node/Express – Parsing a Firebase JWT

Scopique March 15, 2022

Continuing my series on blogging about every line of code I write, today’s topic is one that is pretty critical to creating a working auth system that I don’t have to code. If I were rolling my own auth, I wouldn’t have…

React and Colyseus – Connection State

Scopique March 12, 2022

Now, I might be misunderstanding exactly how these things work, but I was once again testing Colyseus, the Javascript multiplayer game server framework, with React and came across what I assume is a gotcha: maintaining a connection to a server. React’s claim…

Ideas: Revisiting the Market Again

Scopique March 11, 2022

I’ve looked through previous posts and unless I mis-filed it, I cannot find anywhere where I’ve talked about my original thoughts on a dynamic market for this on again, off again space trader game. The original idea was based on supply and…

Adventure Outliner – The Slightly-Different Generation

Scopique March 7, 2022

Hey! Remember this? Probably not, but that’s OK because not only have I remembered for you, but like clockwork, I’m revisiting this project (literally: my archives say the last access of the original project was March of 2021). For the uninitiated, here’s…

When Too Much Freedom is Too Much

Scopique December 9, 2021

I’m pretty sure I’ve written about this particular struggle before: while I can often grasp the mechanical concepts behind a New Thing, whether it’s coding or VFX or whatever, not having an idea of a “best practice” always throws me for a…

React – Simple Search, Results, and Sortable Header

Scopique October 8, 2021

Although it’s now considered bad form to use the table tag in web development, sometimes it’s worth the public ridicule. Responsive layouts are all the rage these days, with users viewing sites on a 4K monitor as well as a relatively tiny…

{Insert Generic Catch-All Title Here}

Scopique September 17, 2021

You know, when it’s been long enough between posts that many low-level topics are vying for attention in my head, the best I can do is write one of these grab-bag posts and give them each a short turn at the microphone.…

ReactJS – Custom Hooks for Searching

Scopique July 29, 2021

Most of what I do in my day job involves searching data. As I work for a data-focused company, my primary responsibility revolves around putting a nice face on the ugly body of data storage. Some folks can access the database directly…

React and Colyseus – Custom React Hooks

Scopique June 27, 2021

I will start by giving props to the site useHooks.com, which has afforded me the absolute best breakthrough I have yet to receive in my journey into the world of React. First, what is a hook? In React terms, a hook is…

Win Some, Lose Some, Win Some More

Scopique June 24, 2021

OK so back when I started learning React, I was facing an up hill battle. Despite having done front end work for neigh on 25 years or so now (almost 30 if you count doing it when the Web was still in…