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12 min read - June 9, 2020

Optimising Entity Framework for fun and profit

Ye cannae break the laws of physics

The core of any modern line-of-business application is a collection of behaviours and operational data and - despite recent trends toward document databases to contend with new problems of massive horizontal scaling - the traditional relational database with a SQL interface resoundingly continues to be the system of choice for managing and keeping data. The shift to cloud infrastructure and language improv

By Rick Bolton - Principal Developer

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9 min read - June 3, 2019

As part of our migration from Angular to React we decided to replace our current e2e testing suite, opting to move to use Cypress. In this post, we'll go over why we chose Cypress and the changes and tweaks we made to make it fit our current workflow.

Cypress tests running for BrightHR

Why Cypress?

Before we made the jump to Cypress

By Daniel Smith - Principal Developer

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4 min read - November 13, 2018

For the last 10 months we've been migrating our Angular 1 app to React. We've just hit a milestone of over 50% of the codebase being React so we thought we'd share how we got here.

Why Move?

Angular 1 is not in active development, our implementation is outdated, some of the highlights...

  • Not all code is tested, that which is was retroactively tested which makes the tests less trustworthy
  • Files with over 3000 lines, parameter mutations,

By Matthew Beasley - Principal Front-End Developer

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8 min read - September 13, 2018

So, if you’re reading this post, you’ve probably already heard some of the hype surrounding Google’s Flutter SDK. If not, let me shed some light on the subject. Flutter is a new, open-source SDK created by Google for the purpose of simplifying cross-platform development of mobile apps. Initially released in May 2017, Flutter made the headlines when the Hamilton Broadway musical developed and released their app using the platform. Taking only 3 m

By Joshua Colley - iOS Developer

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2 min read - May 31, 2018

As part of our new front-end stack we've switched to using Styled Components; we've been very happy with how this has improved our workflow - we'll be blogging about this soon!

Release 3.1 of styled components brought a significant performance improvement by switching how CSS was injected into the page; [insertRule](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleSheet/insertRul

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12 min read - August 23, 2017

You may have seen that we recently released the BrightHR Alexa skill and read our blog about how voice technology could be integral in the future of the workplace. But making a skill from scratch isn’t easy. So how did we go about it

By Lazy Dave - Head of Innovation

Cypress
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