Smart development through small modules — Building scalable applications with unknown future requirements is challenging. Modularizing your code into small independent parts to improve maintainability is an intelligent move. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the…

How could it be difficult? — Organizing your folders and files is painful, especially on big projects that can easily suppress 1000 files to be managed. Files should not contain hundreds of lines. For the sake of our mental health, we can not have high coupling and seek to implement the Single Responsibility Principle. Generating high-quality…

All Iterable Collections in Dart — In programming, when we want to store a collection of similar data, the language provides an array-like structure. The same thing happens on Dart. The most popular way to aggregate related data is with a List class. However, What is a List? What type of lists do we have? What…

How will each one fit with your purpose — Flutter is awesome! We can build sophisticated visual components and animations quickly. And what that means? That most of our effort is directed to logic and architecture. Flutter does its work, so let’s discuss ours. We need to tell when repainting the screen or part of it to the framework. …

A guide through the main licenses to choose — Once your MVP is ready to launch on the market, we need to choose a software license to protect our system. The problem is the many licenses out there to know about, most are very similar to each other. These main licenses include most needs of a software engineer. Why licenses matters? Software…

Reduce to keep the type, fold to change it Have you ever wanted to gather a list's elements into something new? All the Iterable classes, like Lists or Sets, have this option. Dart gives us two reducers functions: reduce() or fold(). What is a “Reducer”? The word "reducer" is a popular term for React.js…

The Extreme Go Horse bulletproof guide Agile methodology has significantly increased its presence in companies led by the IT sector. The main reason is its capacity to deal with changes in the middle of a project. If you know something about agile methodology then you have heard of Scrum, the…

Manipulating time to make effective tests — Autonomous testing is always the first idea that comes up when talking about improving the system's quality. Our test should emulate all scenarios that our code can face. That leads to some complicated cases to reproduce. One of my first struggles with reproducing user journeys in the test environment was…

Tech can’t destroy us, we are going to do it first! Near the end of 2022, everyone was talking about some ChatGPT thing. ChatGPT is an AI-based chat made by the OpenAI company. GPT stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer. And this chat is open to the public freely. Why so much noise? Because that…