Florian Rappl Technology enthusiast and solution architect in the IoT space.

Stories by Florian Rappl

Building A Carousel In React Using Hooks

Building a carousel component in React using Hooks

Dev

Build a custom React carousel component using Hooks, and compare it to the newly released use-carousel-hook.

Florian Rappl
Feb 1, 2023 ⋅ 9 min read
How to build micro-frontends with Piral

Creating micro-frontends with Piral

Dev

Learn what micro-frontends are and how Piral can solve many issues during development to achieve great scalability.

Florian Rappl
Aug 5, 2022 ⋅ 12 min read
Getting started with PeerJS

Getting started with PeerJS

Dev

Take advantage of real-time communication on your website with PeerJS, a library that simplifies WebRTC and makes peer-to-peer chatting easy.

Florian Rappl
Jul 9, 2021 ⋅ 7 min read
react-black-box-nocdn

React is a black box. Why does that matter?

Dev

Does it matter that React is a black box? Many devs argue its internals are too complicated and need to be known.

Florian Rappl
Feb 10, 2021 ⋅ 5 min read
Static Site Generation with React from Scratch

Static site generation with React from scratch

Dev

Using React’s component model for creating static pages allows for uncomplicated control of inputs and outputs.

Florian Rappl
Jan 27, 2021 ⋅ 10 min read

Headless Recorder: A new tool to speed up browser automation

Dev

Headless Recorder, formerly Puppeteer Recorder, records your browser interactions and generates a script for browser testing automation.

Florian Rappl
Dec 17, 2020 ⋅ 5 min read

React concurrent mode

Dev

Learn how to use React concurrent mode to enable an amazing user experience.

Florian Rappl
Apr 30, 2020 ⋅ 6 min read

Taming the front-end monolith

Dev

While larger back-end systems are usually split up in terms of responsibilities into what we call (micro)services, the client(s) consuming […]

Florian Rappl
Feb 25, 2019 ⋅ 8 min read

Using TypeScript transforms to enrich runtime code

Dev

When I started developing no one was talking about “compiling” their JavaScript sources. Everyone just wrote a couple of scripts […]

Florian Rappl
Jan 2, 2019 ⋅ 10 min read

The web app checklist

Dev

Do you have what you need to successfully launch a web app in a business context?

Florian Rappl
Sep 17, 2018 ⋅ 6 min read

Building a progressive web app (PWA): No React, no Angular, no Vue

Dev
Florian Rappl
Jul 18, 2018 ⋅ 10 min read

Extending a client with the language server protocol

Dev

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ We’ve seen quite a lot of movement on the editor front in recent years. First, Sublime Text came to […]

Florian Rappl
May 23, 2018 ⋅ 13 min read