The Big Nerd Ranch Blog

For developers on Apple’s platforms, there’s no shortage of news affecting the work you do this year and in the years ahead. From faster apps to 14 new frameworks, there’s more than a little here to blow minds.

Google announced a lot of new features at Google IO 2019 surrounding Kotlin and Android – here are some of the highlights.

In less than one week Tim Cook and the gang will take to the main stage at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA for the Apple WWDC keynote. The Ranch is very excited about WWDC this year and we have some high expectations and lofty dreams of what they will announce.

Kotlin’s destructure syntax isn’t magic. In fact, if you take a look at what’s happening under the hood it’s easy to tell what what Kotlin is doing the support the use of the destructure syntax with the extension and generated function of componentN.

Let’s look at some technologies that can be used for more advanced React app data layers, including Orbit.js, GraphQL, and Firebase.

Let’s look at patterns for caching write operations that happen while the user is offline, and rerunning them when the user comes back online.

Let’s see how we can cache our Redux store for offline access, along with several different patterns for keeping it up to date.

Let’s see how Service Workers can help our React app run offline…and how they can get us into trouble.