Episode 162 - Welcome Back Coder Catchup

https://stripe.com/billing Titled: Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses Description: The most ambitious companies design billing around customer experience. Stripe Billing is a new set of tools to build and scale your recurring business model. FOR DEVELOPERS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR B…

Release Notes: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.3.0 Context API! No more props drilling! (Passing props through various components) Thanks to createContext function on the React class. Harry Wolff has a great overvi…

My Top 5 Tips to Get Ready for Upgrading to Rails 5.2. Ensure as much test coverage as possible Upgrade to the latest 5.1.x release (step through each major release if you are on earlier versions such as 5.0.x or 4.x) Fix All Deprecation Warnings Setup error tracking (Rollbar, etc) Use rails…

Major browsers will be starting to mark your website as insecure in the very near future. How to prepare and make sure your website is not marked as insecure. Google Security Blog: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html Mozilla Security Blog: https://blog.mozilla…