We defined a policy in our development workflow to rebase a feature branch before merging it into the mainline branch. Since a merge into the mainline branch triggers a deployment into our staging environment, we need to ensure that only stable code is merged. If merge conflicts occur during a merge request, we decided that these should be resolved by the developer who introduced the conflict by rebasing and updating the merge request.…

HTMX, a simple and powerful library for AJAX , CSS transitions, WebSockets, and server-sent events directly in HTML , via attributes. With this promise, HTMX, which grew out of intercooler JS , is currently rising to fame. To test if it delivers what it promises, I built a proof of concept implementation using HTMX and Symfony. Challenges in today’s web development ecosystem Developers who have slowed down active frontend development around 2015 and want to develop a feature or two again in today’s professional frontend world may feel uncomfortable with the overhead of frameworks, libraries, and JS build pipelines that have emerged since jQuery.…

Although the main business for our developers at tasko Products is to build tools around our e-commerce platform and shops, we sometimes have to create simple websites too. We for example have some dedicated brand pages, documentation websites, or this blog 😉 We build our whole hosting infrastructure on the AWS Cloud and also host our static websites there. The number of services you need to set up and connect may seem a bit confusing at first but it is pretty simple.…