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The Radar: November 16, 2016

November 16th, 2016 - by Michelle Mann - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.

Inspect

This tool streamlines the development process. It helps eliminate design spec guessing, so developers don’t have to ask designers for assets.

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Cybric Helps Developers Build More Secure Applications Automatically

Cybric provides automated security checking each time a build is updated. Don’t let your fast paced app development sacrifice security.

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Comprehensive Guide: When to Use Em vs. Rem

This article outlines how the em and rem unit work and how we should use them. This is useful for responsive design because everything needs to be scalable.

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An Intro to Monkey Testing with Gremlins.js

Ever wanted to know what would happen to your site if a monkey, or a small child, got a hold of the keyboard and mouse? Gremlins.js can simulate this for you.

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Mas

A command line tool for the Mac App Store.

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10 Things We Learned While Building a React Native App

A little outdated, but still solid tips to review when building a React Native app.

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Tal Kol: Building a React Native App for 80 Million Users

A comprehensive presentation about Wix’s transition from a fully native stack to React Native.

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How We Ditched HTTP and Transitioned to MQTT

How to stop using HTTP requests for notifications and start using MQTT, which was specifically created for that purpose.

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True Lies of Optimistic User Interfaces

Send a visual success cue before the server can determine success.

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