My New Junior Developer Onboarding Project and Process

Overview Recently I’ve started onboarding Junior Full Stack devs using a beginner Project. Here is why I made that change, as well as what the project consists of and its outcomes What we did before, and why change? Before I explore why I’m now using this as an onboarding method I’ll explain what we were doing before. Throwing them into the beep end. That’s not something I’d recommend but traditionally we would spend a day going over the company, the next day going over some of the technology we are currently implementing. Getting them access to all the repos and tools and then saying “go and explore”. ...

April 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1201 words · Rob Dunn

Running NX with Frontend and API Proxied

Overview NX is a great tool to manage Mono-repos. I’ve been using it for near on 5 years in my professional life and around about the same on a number of side projects. One of the first things I set up in any new mono-repo is the proxying of API requests through the front-end to the API running in parallel. With NX this is super easy and makes life simple as you only have to run one command and get both stacks running all at the same time. ...

November 1, 2024 · 4 min · 702 words · Rob Dunn