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Hi, I'm Rob 👋

I'm a freelance JavaScript developer based in London. I craft APIs and web apps using NodeJS and React.

Turning text into video with DraftJS

At BBC News Labs we built a suite of media editing tools that allow journalists to create audio and video content from a UI as familiar as a text editor. One library has been key to delivering this ambition, DraftJS... »

The Aggregation of Marginal Gains in Software Engineering

Could this idea, proven to be very successful for sport teams, be applicable to our software engineering team? »

Mocking requireJS modules

I'm currently working with a legacy requireJS browser module, in which several 3rd party dependencies are being selectively loaded at runtime. This has been »

Parallel testing with Behat, Docker and Gearman

As a project grows in complexity, the amount of time it's supporting test suites take to run increases. In recent projects I've »

BDD Tips - Mocking an API

Why might you mock an API? API's, whether they be REST, SOAP or the dreaded 'banter' variety, play central roles in both »