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Alan Montgomery

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I'm a 27-year-old Software Developer based in Northern Ireland. My current full-time role is a Mobile Team Lead where I develop apps for our company using the Ionic Framework and React.

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Routing, programmatically in Ionic React

Jun 3, 2021 4 min read 79 views

PS: I originally posted this on Ionic React Hub Today I want to teach you how you can achieve routing programmatically in Ionic with React. There are a few different ways it can be done, but there's one way that should definitely be utilised, especia...

Routing, programmatically in Ionic React

Javascript ES2021 - Features to be included this year in ES12

Mar 24, 2021 6 min read 148 views

ES12 is planned to be released in June 2021. So we're a little bit off yet, but there are some cool things that have been announced already, one of which is going to be awesome! Here's a breakdown of what I'm going to briefly cover: Numeric separato...

Javascript ES2021 - Features to be included this year in ES12

Mobile DevCast - A podcast dedicated to mobile app development and web native technologies

Jan 24, 2021 2 min read 201 views

This is something I've been wanting to do for quite some time now. Start a podcast on the things I love in the development world. That is mobile development. Both for the web and for native devices like iOS and Android. The only difference is, I use ...

Mobile DevCast - A podcast dedicated to mobile app development and web native technologies

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 2)

Nov 14, 2020 4 min read 337 views

Welcome back to this mini series. In Part 1 we looked at the main display property to activate or enable flexbox css on a contrainer element. I also talked about the different types of flex-direction you could use. If you missed it you can read Part ...

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 2)

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 1)

Nov 9, 2020 4 min read 1.9K views

In this mini-series, I will be taking you through how to use flexbox CSS, in a simple, easy to understand way. You can really empower your projects and websites with the use of flexbox CSS and reduce your lines of code drastically. I have also releas...

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 1)

Using React Context API with NextJS

Nov 2, 2020 5 min read 1.5K views

One huge pain point in React (and NextJS) is having to pass props through multi-level components. The bigger the application or project gets, the more painful this becomes. This is because of how React is structured, in a tree like fashion with data ...