Toilet Papers

Knowlegde transfer is key at jambit. Thus, it is not surprising that even our toilet doors are equipped with so-called "Toilet Papers": Short expert articles by jambitees, dealing with current technologies for the solution of a specific problem in the software world.

In order to avoid bathroom queues and to make the interesting tech articles accessible to a wider audience, we regularly publish new Toilet Papers here.

2023/03/02

Resilience in .Net with Polly

Overinflated code when handling transient errors? This ToiletPaper shows how this can be solved for .NET with the library Polly.

2023/02/02

Don't drink so much: reducing frontend code

Some developers keep using the tools they are used to – instead of the best tool for the job. Find out about a better approach with a multi-page application in this ToiletPaper.

2022/12/29

Jetpack Compose – Easily developing UIs for Android

Up to now, developers wrote their UI code in XML without any problems. Why you should still switch to Jetpack Compose as the new UI framework for Android is shown in this ToiletPaper.

2022/11/17

Preact – A light-weight alternative to React

Preact is a smaller and faster alternative to React with the same modern API. Find out how it can look like in this ToiletPaper.

2022/10/20

A server is also just a stream

Railway Oriented Programming for the request handling in a Node.js server? This ToiletPaper shows how with the help of the framework Marble.

2022/09/15

Something like Scala's for comprehension in Typescript

With monads like Option, Result, Either or Try you often end up in large closures including deeply nested code blocks. Haskell's do notation or Scala's for comprehension can help here. Find out in this ToiletPaper how to get support in Typescript as well.

2022/08/18

Embedded Database with Zonky

Weak validity of your tests due to PostgreSQL and only H2 for integration tests? Find out in this ToiletPaper how the Zonky library can help.

2022/07/14

For-comprehensions and monads in Scala

Frustrated by a not so readable one liner full of map and flatmap operations? Find out in this ToiletPaper why for-comprehensions in Scala is your solution.

2022/06/16

Ancient jambit technology: the jambel

Have you ever heard of our fast-feedback-device "jambel"? It comes with a Java library to level up your CI/CD pipeline. Learn more in this ToiletPaper.

2022/05/19

Address Hot Module Replacement API manually

HMR works automagically in almost all popular frontend frameworks. It is, however, possible to control HMR manually. How and why is shown in this Toilet Paper.

2022/04/07

Forgotten JavaScript feature: labels

Breaking out of deeply nested conditions and loops in JavaScript? Find out how in this ToiletPaper.

2022/03/10

JXLS – Generating Excel files easily

Your client already knows exactly what their Excel report should look like? Then grab their template, enrich it with some markup and use JXLS to fill the document with data from the Java backend with little effort. Find out how in this ToiletPaper.

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