Travis Luong

Travis is a Full-Stack Developer with 5 years of professional programming experience. Having worked as a freelance consultant, web contractor, and full-time engineer prior to joining Fresh, he excels at both server-side and client-side web development. While his expertise is in Ruby on Rails and Javascript, Travis is familiar with a variety of tools, languages, and frameworks. Most recently, he has worked on web and mobile apps for CBRE and Fornetix.

How to Debug Django Apps
Expertise, Software, Web App Development

How to Debug Django Apps

In the JavaScript world, my primary debugging workflow consists of dropping a debugger or a console.log into the code and seeing what happens in the browser’s developer console. This methodology has always worked effectively for me. However, I have started to work more with Python and Django recently, and though they do have similar debugging
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Elasticsearch: Creating a fuzzy search-as-you-type feature
Expertise, Software, Web App Development, Website Development

Elasticsearch: Creating a fuzzy search-as-you-type feature

Tutorial: How to Create a Fuzzy Search-as-you-type Feature with Elasticsearch and Django Recently, I had to figure out how to implement a fuzzy search-as-you-type feature for one of our Django web APIs. I couldn’t find any comprehensive tutorial on how to build this specific feature, so I decided to combine multiple sources and document the
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Should I Use RxJS in My Project?
Expertise, Software

Should I Use RxJS in My Project?

If you’re thinking about using RxJS, you might as well be asking, “Should I use a jump kick in a street fight?” Unless you are Bruce Lee, probably not. As a disclaimer, I am not an RxJS pro. I only started learning about it a couple of weeks ago. Consider this post a record of
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Angular Components: A Simpler Convention
Expertise

Angular Components: A Simpler Convention

There used to be no single standard for structuring Angular apps. Angular provided us with many different means of doing the same thing. This flexibility has given developers a lot of options and great power in structuring their apps. However, the downside is that often we are left wondering which way is the “right way.”
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How to Organize Your Gulp.js Development Builds for Multiple Environments
Expertise

How to Organize Your Gulp.js Development Builds for Multiple Environments

You are developing a growing front-end application with gulp.js. You notice that your scripts are starting to look like incomprehensible spaghetti. You have many environments including test, development, staging, production, and continuous integration. They all depend on your build scripts to generate the correct build per environment. Each environment may have an entirely or slightly
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