My website is super out of date so I decided to rebuild it using Begin. In this first part we'll setup a new project with a landing page.
Simon MacDonald
10 mins to read
Tests should be proportionate to our cloud functions in scope and size. Fast and small, just like the services they're testing.
Taylor Beseda
3 mins to read
We are starting a book club. We love to read at Begin! Our daily stand-up calls frequently include updates and recommendations on books we are reading, so we wanted to share that with our community.
Simon MacDonald
2 mins to read
The debate over whether to use a single-purpose function vs. a fat lambda continues to this day, and in this post, we hope to convince you that Fat Lambda is truly an anti-pattern.
Simon MacDonald
6 mins to read
I got fed up with too many "A"s in my JAMstack and built an image processing plugin to eliminate one of them.
Ryan Bethel
7 mins to read
Receive and respond to Shopify webhooks with a free Begin.com account. Leverage the power and scale of AWS Lambda without the laborious Amazon web console.
Taylor Beseda
4 mins to read
One of the best things about JavaScript is the ecosystem, as there always seems to be a package that can be used to accomplish your task. However, one of the worst things about JavaScript is that there are often many packages that you can use to achieve the same task. It’s not always obvious which package is best. How do we know which one to use?
Simon MacDonald
4 mins to read
Dark Mode is a popular feature of many websites. It helps to reduce eye strain by adjusting the brightness of the screen according to current lighting conditions. In this post, we will progressively enhance our personal website template to add dark mode functionality.
Simon MacDonald
4 mins to read
Architect users often ask for some way to avoid large surprise bills from AWS. The budget-watch plugin sets a cost limit for your app and temporarily shuts it down when the limit is reached. It is the first step to solving this problem for our community.
Ryan Bethel
6 mins to read
One of the thing that sets OpenJS Architect apart from other serverless tools is its opinion that serverless apps work best when composed of many small, discrete Lambda cloud functions.
Ryan Block
2 mins to read
By popular demand: OpenJS Architect 8.3 (El Chupacabra) now supports custom file paths, custom Lambda templates, a fresh new local (and global) preferences file, and lots more!
Ryan Block
2 mins to read
C.R.E.A.M — Cache rules everything around me
Paul Chin Jr
3 mins to read
More flexible and powerful than ever, with greedy catchall syntax, and legacy server migration with @proxy
Ryan Block
3 mins to read
We're excited to announce that all new Begin apps will now ship with next-generation AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs by default!
Paul Chin Jr
3 mins to read
By popular demand: API Gateway HTTP APIs are now the default in Architect serverless apps
Ryan Block
3 mins to read
We're excited to announce that Begin apps will deploy with any default branch you configure in GitHub.
Paul Chin Jr
1 mins to read
Terms like master-slave carry powerful implications of racial supremacy and oppression, and have no place in our lexicon. Efforts across our industry are rightfully underway to retire such references to the dustbin of history, where they belong.
Ryan Block
2 mins to read
Deno is a next-generation JavaScript runtime that features a built-in TypeScript compiler and code bundler, allowing developers to create applications without Webpack, Babel, or Rollup.
Paul Chin Jr
4 mins to read
Deno is a next-generation JavaScript runtime that makes testing a first class capability. In this guide we'll show you how to use Deno to write an automated test suite. In part 2 we will setup Begin.com for CI/CD and module publishing.
Brian Leroux
4 mins to read
Today we're introducing an entirely new primitive to Begin apps: event functions (@events)!
Ryan Block
2 mins to read