Raphael Rafatpanah

I enjoy keeping up with the latest in JavaScript and have used the language in a variety of environments (browser, server, command line applications, IoT, etc). I've recently switched from Angular to React and absolutely love it.

Wrote a book aimed at helping ReactJS developers learning how to build React applications with Reason. Spoke at the ReasonConf US 2019 conference.

Looking to build a completely serverless application? Have you considered using Firebase? I've been truly blown away by how powerful Firebase is. For example, you can even have a completely serverless backend for a chat application that relies heavily on WebSocket connections thanks to Firebase's Firestore database (which is realtime)!

I built my first large scale project in Angular & Laravel (PHP) and learned a lot about application architecture, algorithms, API development, the need for automated testing / continuous integration and programming in general. I'm currently rewriting this application in React, Node.js and PouchDB and am amazed how much less code actually needs to be written. For example, with PouchDB / CouchDB, so much of my previous application's API just works "out of the box" due to CouchDB's replication protocol. Also, it works completely offline. I imagine a lot of applications will be redone with more and more focus on the client instead of relying on PHP and other server side technologies.