Category: Debug with Me
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Typescript in Node and the Client
Hey! Another one for the debug journal. We’re adding some back-end endpoints using Express.js to our Typescript/React front-end. So I threw together a server.ts file and tried to run it with ts-node. But nope: Yeah, imports. We’re not yet in the future where require is gone and everything just works. But that’s alright, someone from…
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Kotlin Async Gotcha
Today I was hacking on a project with Ktor, and wanting to execute two operations in parallel, which can be done using the async function available on a CoroutineContext: But the compiler highlights the async calls and shows me this error: As far as I can tell, it’s saying that the type of the block…
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React Native Async Trouble
This is a #DebugJournal post, which means you’re reading the notes I took in real-time while debugging the issue. It won’t read like a nicely put together tutorial, more like a boring field-journal. Multiple times now I’ve come to situations where React Native just hangs up, and stops execution of a promise or generator-based function…
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On Pagination and Sort Order
The Bug 🐞 We’ve been testing the next generation of our sync engine at Day One prior to public release, and we found a funny bug. We have an endpoint for fetching a big list of entries that have changed since the last fetch. This endpoint is also how a new phone with no content…