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3 ways you can improve your npm publish

Publishing JavaScript projects on npm can become quite an overwhelming task when projects grow to a certain size. At simplabs we're maintaining over a dozen actively used JavaScript projects that we've published on npm. We don't always have plenty of time for that, but we made sure that at least the release process is as automated as possible, so that we can spend our time on the things that really matter.

This blog post will show you three of our most important tricks to improve how you publish your packages to npm.

Automating Ember releases with Rust

Releasing a new version of Ember is no uncomplicated task. This process involves several different core teams, who are responsible for several packages and resources between them. In this post, I will explain how I used Rust to build a tool that automates part of the Ember release process.

Inside simplabs #3: Nick Schot, Senior Software-Engineer

In the third episode of Inside simplabs, Emma Dell'Acqua, Marketing Assistant, interviews Nick Schot, one of our Software-Engineers.

Inside simplabs #2: Florian Pichler, Senior Software-Engineer

In the second episode of Inside simplabs, Emma Dell'Acqua, Marketing Assistant, interviews Florian Pichler, one of our Software-Engineers.

Managing modal dialogs in Ember.js with Promises

Modal dialogs are about as widespread as they are missunderstood. No matter if you call them modal windows, popups, popovers, overlays, or dialogs: A thing that asks a question or presents a subordinate task; a general annoyance to developers and accessibility experts alike.

Even if you use them rarely, most applications will need modal dialogs at some point to ask existential questions. The app asks your user and waits to resolve its uncertainty by their answer.

Inside simplabs #1: Chris Manson, Senior Software-Engineer

In the first episode of the new series "Inside simplabs", Emma Dell'Acqua, Marketing Assistant, has a chat with Chris Manson, one of our Senior Software-Engineers.

Effective infrastructure for efficient development workflows

Building software products of any kind is hard enough. Doing so without the support of powerful infrastructure that enables efficient workflows is even harder. Yet, many teams are suffering from the absence of such infrastructure, forcing them into very much inefficient workflows with substantial time and effort going into synchronizing the work of different engineers, tracking down bugs, and getting back to tasks later that were already thought to be complete.

How to create an interface inventory

Are you struggling with a messy interface? Is your digital product full of inconsistencies? Are your designers and developers having a hard time aligning on how to evolve your UI?

If so, consider creating an interface inventory. It is a small but powerful step towards a homogenous, pattern-based digital design strategy.

Git Good - The magic of keeping a clean Git history

This post is designed to help you form a solid mental model while working with Git both professionally and in an open source project, and how to ensure you are following best practices to make the process easier for everyone.

Trying your GitHub Actions locally

If, like me, configuring GitHub Actions is not your thing and you find yourself wanting to try something before actually pushing it to GitHub (and having to see the effects on real-life), follow this step by step of how to run your GitHub Actions on your own computer.