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In today's blog post, which is the final blog post of the 7 days of Platform.sh series, I will be discussing what a source operation is on Platform.sh, the problem it solves and how to set up one for any of your applications deployed on Platform.sh.

Go is a statically typed, compiled language with an emphasis on easy concurrency and network services. Many software engineering teams today use Go for the backend of their web applications because it is efficient, fast, simple and reliable. In today's blog post, which is part of the 7 days of Platform.sh series, I will be discussing how Platform.sh supports Go developers to deploy their projects with ease.

A lot of React developers have decided to make use of NextJS, the open-source React framework to build their production UIs. This is because NextJS has simplified the React framework with extra features like hybrid static and server-side rendering, out of the box Typescript support, smart bundling and many others without any config. In today's blog post, which is part of the 7 days of Platform.sh series, I will be discussing how Platform.sh supports NextJS and React developers to deploy their projects with ease.

Blackfire is a code performance and observability solution that helps improve web applications performance at various steps in a software development life cycle: from development to test, staging and production. In today's blog post, I'll be introducing Blackfire and how you can use Blackfire to assess the performance of your Django applications.

In today's blog post, which is part of the 7 days of Platform.sh series, I will be discussing how Platform.sh supports Python and Django developers to deploy their projects with ease.

On day one of the 7 days of the Platformsh series, I discussed how Platform.sh helps Gatsby and React developers host their Gatsby-based web application frontend. Today, we'll be discussing how platform.sh supports the deployment of multiple applications as a single project, we'll be using Gatsby and a Drupal CMS as a case study.

After a while working at the CFF, I realized that I was looking for a different thing because I felt like my work with the CFF was already at its end and I wanted to move on to another. I still wanted to remain in the PaaS and also do open source work in the process because I strongly believe in it.

React is a fantastic Javascript library for building rich user interfaces, it provides a great component abstraction for organising your interfaces into well-functioning code but what about the look and feel of the app? In the browser, the look and feel of the app are mostly defined by CSS which is a means of styling our web applications and websites. There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries etc.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to consume REST APIs in React using the fetch API and the Axios client. In the process, we will also build a simple react applications that is consuming an API. At the end of this tutorial, the readers would understand what a REST API is and how to consume them in React with the best practices.

React is a fantastic Javascript library for building rich user interfaces, it provides a great component abstraction for organising your interfaces into well-functioning code but what about the look and feel of the app? In the browser, the look and feel of the app are mostly defined by CSS which is a means of styling our web applications and websites. There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries etc.

When React 16.8 was released officially in early February 2019, it shipped with an additional API that lets you use state and other features in React without writing a class. This additional API is called Hooks and they're becoming popular in the React ecosystem, from open sourced projects to being used in production applications.

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At the time of writing this, I haven't found a topic for this article yet and I don't want to use the classic 'My year in review' so whenever you read this article just know that I still don't have a title and I have left it at what it is.

When React 16.8 was released officially in early February 2019, it shipped with an additional API that lets you use state and other features in React without writing a class. This additional API is called Hooks and they're becoming popular in the React ecosystem, from open sourced projects to being used in production applications.