Ian Thomas
Principal Engineer · Bet Tribe
UI focused engineer with a passion for JS, UX and front-end performance.
Articles by Ian
Looking back at NodeConf London
It’s a little known fact that skybet.com has been working with Node.js since version 0.4 (though our first app running in a live environment was on version 0.6) so we’ve got a long history of running JavaScript on the server. In addition, our customer experience is wholly reliant on JavaScript in the browser so you could say we’re less of a PHP shop and more of a JavaScript shop… So it was with interest that three of the skybet.com team headed to that London for the first ever NodeConf London.
9 minute read
Is Client-Side Rendering Ready For The Big Time?
As we look to define best-practice for our next generation Sportsbook, one area of focus is the rise of support for SPAs in Search Engines. Is the support there to remove server rendering forever?
15 minute read