This month the Development department discusses search services, component based Javascript and the importance of site optimization.

A core concept in React.js is that your application is a collection of small composable components instead of a monolith of tightly interlocked parts. The charting library 

 really drove that home to me, and is a great example that principle leads to powerful yet easy to understand tools.
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 released by Google, 53% of mobile users abandon sites that take longer than 3 seconds to load. Although this doesn’t sound too unreasonable (or maybe I’m just impatient), the average load time for mobile sites is 19 seconds over 3G (whaaaat). Performance is important, not only to your bounce rate, but in comparing faster sites (5 seconds) to slower ones (19 seconds), the faster sites had average session lengths that were 70% longer. Do your users a favor and optimize your site’s performance.
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Do you love the single file component feature of React.js? Do you hate the complex build process to get started with React? 

 to the rescue! Vue has a very similar feature set to React, with the added bonus of two-way data binding. Another bonus to Vue is it is dead simple to get up and running. For a quick proof of concept or personal project you can simply include the bundled file from a CDN and you are off an running. If your needs are more robust you can use Vueify and bundle your components in ES6 style!
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We were recently tasked with rebuilding the search feature for one of our projects to make it faster and return better results. The task was made super easy with the help of 

 a 3rd party search API. The Algolia API is fast-as-lightening and can return results as fast as you can type. It has cool features like typo correction and you’re able to customize the ranking rules. They have clients for just about every language and integrations with popular platforms and frameworks so integration is a piece of cake.
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Your place for all the happenings in and around Jerrod Long that made it to print.

Morgan Jeremy sounds like a man who owns a sailboat and no socks.
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Notes From the Future Desk - September

Development

Week 1: Small Components for the Victory

Week 2: The Importance of Performance

Week 3: Vueify FTW

Week 4: We still love Algolia

QOTM

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