When using React Native, lists are created using the FlatList component. A FlatList is constructed using one or more repeatable list items, one item per row. In this blog I’ll demonstrate how TypeScript can help to create FlatLists with generic list items.

This is a technique where we can reduce boilerplate, but still have readable and customisable FlatLists.

Let’s dive right into the basics of a FlatList by creating a list of StarWars characters.

Event messaging is a powerful concept for sending notifications between decoupled services in your backend. In a previous blog post, my colleague already explained a lot about this topic using Amazon’s SNS and SQS.
In this blog post I will focus on how you can setup event messaging in AWS using SNS and SQS, but with the handy use of Terraform.

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In the release notes of Xcode 8.2, Apple introduced features for their new version of Xcode. In this blog I will explain how to use these new features.

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