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Gareth Lowrie

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👋 Hey, Naz here. I love craft beers, all things tech and the gulag. My tech stack is primarily Javascript, Typescript, ES6, GraphQL, Node, Express, Elasticsearch, Mongo and AWS 🔥

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AWS: Understand IAM in 5 minutes

Jan 15, 2021 5 min read 67 views

What does it stand for?: Identity and Access Management What do you use it for?: To control who is authenticated (signed in) / authorised (has permissions) to use AWS resources. Cost: There is no charge to use IAM at the time of writing. Features ...

My awesome VS Code Setup

Dec 24, 2020 3 min read 79 views

I really love my current VS Code theme and set up and thought I would write a blog post to refer to in the future when setting up new machines and to give you some inspiration to spice up your setup! 🔥 Theme 🎨 I use the Cobalt2 Theme Official theme...

Move your React component lifecycle methods to React effect hooks

Sep 25, 2019 7 min read 26 views

So, you used to use recompose / class components in your React app to add lifecycle methods to your stateless functional components, before the Hooks API was launched. The time has come to upgrade to React 16 and make use of the new way of managing ...

Move your React component lifecycle methods to React effect hooks

Migrate from recompose withState to React Hooks useState

Sep 25, 2019 4 min read 54 views

So, you used to use recompose in your React app to add state to your stateless functional components, before the Hooks API was launched. The time has come to upgrade to React 16 and make use of the new way of managing state within your functional co...

Migrate from recompose withState to React Hooks useState