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Welcome to Carbonite

This is a space where we can all share our knowledge and contribute to the collective capability of Turing. It's mission is to create a single shared place where we can store what we consider to be best practice, experiment and showcase new and upcoming technologies, and provide examples that can easily be used by other ANDis to provide outstanding experiences.

This is very much a first draft to be used as an example, but if you'd like to contribute, check out the Contributor Guide. To see where Carbonite intends to go next, check out the Roadmap blog entry.

React and TypeScript Good Practices

Blog

May 28, 2021 - 23 min read

A retrospective look at how to best use TypeScript and React together after over a year of building on a project

React

TypeScript

Good Practice

by Nathan Skelley

Using Optimistic Updates in GraphQL with Apollo

Blog

February 28, 2021 - 11 min read

How to use Optimistic Updates with GraphQL and Apollo to make applications feel lightning fast when mutating remote data sources

Apollo

GraphQL

by Nathan Skelley

How we estimated 484 Titan Travel Trello Tickets

Blog

February 16, 2021 - 5 min read

At Titan Travel we had a big scope for our discovery phase. We were asked to create a roadplan with time estimates for a fully greenfield rebuild of their existing website. In this article I walk you through how we managed it using a useful plugin and some Excel magic.

Estimating

Project Management

by Sam Hopkins

Titan JavaScript Exchange Talk

Blog

January 28, 2021 - 5 min read

In January 2021 I spoke on the JavaScript Exchange talking about our plans for the new Titan Travel website. In this blog I share a brief synopsis on why I did it, how I did it and some of the lessons I learnt along the way

Public Speaking

by Sam Hopkins

Cleaner HTML with Material UI's Box Clone Ability

Blog

January 10, 2021 - 5 min read

A quick dive into the Clone ability of Material UI's versatile Box component, which gives us all the superpower of Box with less of the HTML.

Frontend

Material UI

by Nathan Skelley

Advanced GraphQL Data Mocking

In Progress

In Progress as of January 09, 2021

An advanced mocking technique that makes generating vast amounts of semi-random, deterministic data for projects using GraphQL quick and simple, with a concise and easy to use API

GraphQL

Jest

Testing

Apollo

by Hattie Stamp, Nathan Skelley

Lerna Monorepo Template

In Progress

In Progress as of January 09, 2021

A quick-start template to create a Lerna monorepo that provides component, client and micro-service packages, using Hasura to provide a GraphQL data source

Lerna

GraphQL

Apollo

Hasura

Lerna

Monorepo

by Nathan Skelley

How Carbonite v0.1 was built

Blog

January 08, 2021 - 15 min read

Rome wasn't built in a day, but Carbonite v0.1 was. How? Because getting started with Gatsby and building a simple blog platform is really easy with the open source tools we have available today. This guide will explain what came out of the box, and required a little bit more work (if tinkering while watching Christmas movies is considered as work).