Blog

A head-to-head comparison of Prettier and StandardJS — two popular JavaScript code formatters — to help your team stop arguing about style and focus on functionality.

React Native is a powerful technology for mobile development, but awareness in the developer community is still lacking. Instea shares free presentation slides and encourages developers to spread the word.

A practical guide to the compatibility challenges encountered when porting a React Native app from Android to iOS, with concrete solutions for fonts, platform-specific components, touchables, and more.

Instea releases an open-source React Native color picker component with cross-platform support for Android and iOS, multiple color formats, and easy integration.

Lessons learned from creating Instea's first open source project — a context menu component for React Native.

How to test side effects in Redux Saga without complex mocking — using generators, mocha and chai.

Exploring the ongoing debate between dynamic and static typing — what really matters is if you test your code.

Comparing Karma, Jest and Mocha for testing React applications — their strengths, weaknesses, and when to use each.

Understanding how Node.js handles concurrent tasks — non-blocking I/O, blocking computation, and solutions using webworker-threads and Node Cluster.

Initial steps in server monitoring using Kibana and Elasticsearch — collecting Spring Boot metrics and building a visualization dashboard.