Forms that work. Every time. Everywhere.
Progressive enhancement for HTML Forms
Ryan Bethel
9 mins to read
Modern Software Engineering: Begin Book Club
If you missed out on our meet up with Dave Farley on his book, Modern Software Engineering, you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.
Simon MacDonald
45 mins to read
CSS Grid and Web Components are two great technologies that go great together
Not unlike the combination of chocolate and peanut butter, CSS Grid and Web Components are two great technologies that go great together.
Simon MacDonald
5 mins to read
The Jamstack Book: Begin Book Club
If you missed out on our meet up with Ray Camden and Brian Rinaldi on The Jamstack Book you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.
Simon MacDonald
54 mins to read
Rendering HTML from Markdown in a Cloud Function
Skip the build step: dynamically parse Markdown and render to HTML right on the server. Respond to an HTTP request by loading a .md file, transforming the Markdown source, and returning HTML.
Taylor Beseda
5 mins to read
Why I no longer use Static Site Generators
Static Site Generators (SSG) are an excellent solution for building web applications where the content does not change frequently. However, as your website's scope increases, either by additional content or dynamic functionality, issues begin to pop up.
Simon MacDonald
3 mins to read
Kill It with Fire the Begin Book Club July Selection
In July we'll be meeting with Marianne Bellotti to discuss her book "Kill It with Fire".
Simon MacDonald
2 mins to read
Using GitHub Actions with Architect
GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline. We’ve recently created some composite actions to test every pull request to your repository and deploy tagged releases to production.
Simon MacDonald
2 mins to read
Astro SSR on Lambda with Architect
Astro released an experimental SSR feature with an adapter API. To integrate with the Lambda runtime, we'll map API Gateway events to Astro Requests and return proper API Gateway result.
Taylor Beseda
4 mins to read
Automating email reminders with scheduled functions
Are there any repetitive tasks in your life that would benefit from automation? I run a weekly ice hockey game, and even though it is at the same place and time every week, the dummies that I play with still need a weekly reminder email. So I decided to create a scheduled function to send out that weekly reminder for me.
Simon MacDonald
4 mins to read
Using OAuth to protect Architect routes
An Architect plugin to ease some of the pain and boilerplate of authentication while avoiding an expensive third-party authentication provider.
Ryan Bethel
5 mins to read
Storage and Deno and database seeding, oh my!
We've recently released some updates to Begin to make your developer experience even better, and we've decided we need to celebrate them.
Simon MacDonald
2 mins to read
Building Functional Web Apps with Redis
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 Redis Enterprise Cloud as our database provider.
Simon MacDonald
9 mins to read
Don't `npm install` your way to success: a different way of thinking about dependencies
The intention of this post is to demonstrate a different approach to adopting and using dependencies.
Ryan Block
8 mins to read
What I’ve learnt building plugins for Architect 10
Architect community member Andy Buckingham stops by to talk about the benefits of the Architect plugin API and what he's been able to build with it.
Andy Buckingham
3 mins to read
The Coding Career Handbook: Begin Book Club
If you missed out on our meet up with Shawn (Swyx) Wang on the Coding Career Handbook you can catch up by watching the video or reading the transcript.
Simon MacDonald
47 mins to read
Architect Remix Plugin
Mix Remix into an Architect project with the official Arc 10 Remix plugin.
Taylor Beseda
4 mins to read
Migrating an Express.js App to a Functional Web App
Functional Web App (FWA) is an architectural pattern for building web applications and APIs. An FWA comprises cloud functions, talking to a managed database, that are deterministically deployed. However, many monolithic Node.js applications run popular web application frameworks like Express.js. This blog post will deconstruct an Express.js app into an FWA one route at a time.
Simon MacDonald
8 mins to read
Introducing Functional Web Apps
Functional Web App is an architectural pattern for building dynamic web applications and APIs without the trade-offs of load balancing or hiding dynamic functionality behind spinners.
Brian Leroux
7 mins to read
Remix + Architect: State of the Integration
We are aware of an issue with the Remix adapter and Architect. Both teams are working on a permanent fix, but for now, we have a workaround to get you back to building apps.
Taylor Beseda
2 mins to read