Introducing Architect version 10!!!, with a plugin API, TypeScript support, live reloads, automatic port selection, and many other new features
Ryan Block
5 mins to read
We've lined up our next three book club meet-ups. Join us in March for The Coding Career Handbook with Shawn Wang, May for The JAMstack Book with Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi, and June for Modern Software Engineering with Dave Farley.
Simon MacDonald
3 mins to read
By this point in the pandemic, we are all tired of sanitizing our hands, but that doesn’t mean we should let our guard down when sanitizing user input. Don’t rely solely on client side validation as it can easily be bypassed.
Simon MacDonald
4 mins to read
Filling out forms is one of the backbones of web applications, and there is a myriad of form libraries that help you manage this task but do you really need them?
Simon MacDonald
7 mins to read
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is touted as an industry-wide best practice, but why is the alternative called ClickOps, and what are its pain points?
Simon MacDonald
3 mins to read
In this tutorial, we'll use Begin to quickly develop a to-do list application. We'll use AWS Lambda as our serverless platform and MongoDB Atlas as our database provider.
Simon MacDonald
11 mins to read
Technologists love new technology—that new shiny thing. But, often, the promise of a new solution introduces new unforeseen problems creating unplanned challenges. Let's revisit what makes technology boring.
Brian Leroux
6 mins to read
Read the transcript from our first ever book club meeting where we discuss The DynamoDB Book with the Author, Alex DeBrie.
Simon MacDonald
55 mins to read
Learn how to integrate Auth0 authentication with an Architect application.
Simon MacDonald
14 mins to read
Recently AWS Lambda released support for ES Modules and we decided so should we.
Simon MacDonald
1 mins to read
My website is super out of date so I decided to rebuild it using Begin.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