Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas

Principal Engineer · Bet Tribe

UI focused engineer with a passion for JS, UX and front-end performance.

  • JS
  • React
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Node

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.

Author:

Ian Thomas

Category:

Node.js

Time:

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?

Author:

Ian Thomas

Category:

UI Engineering

Time:

15 minute read