JavaScript on code.kiwi.com

5 reasons you cannot miss the Global Travel Hackathon

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:56:00 +0000

The next big thing in hackathons? A global one!

Did you know? 27 September is World Tourism Day. We decided to celebrate the day by attending and organising travel hackathons all over the globe on that day. We want to bring together engineers, designers, and innovators: providing them with a creative and supportive environment and encouraging their ideas on how to hack travel.

5 reasons you should apply for Kiwi.com’s Summer Camp for senior devs

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:48:00 +0000

The Summer Camp for senior devs is back. This year again we’re taking engineers to Barcelona on 22–28 July to boost their programming skills and enjoy the summer. We cover accommodation, travel expenses, afternoon activities and sightseeing and give you 1,000€ as a reward.

Relay and GraphQL best practices

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:21:00 +0000

Check the videos from our internal, one-day workshop to learn more about proper usage and best practices around GraphQL and Relay.

Sharing is caring, that’s what triggered our internal one-day workshop which aim was to share knowledge between our JS developers. The goal of the first round was to show proper usage and best practices around GraphQL and Relay as we expect these technologies to be used more and more shortly.

Say goodbye to loops with ‘reduce’ ????

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 21:18:00 +0000

If you’re starting with functional programming and don’t know where to continue after map and filter, go with reduce.

–Do you insist on using the image of the cat? –Yes, I do. Reflects the essence of functional programming. Source: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5185/5619954191_565779cf5d_b.jpg

Coding at the Kiwi.com Summer Camp in Barcelona

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:47:00 +0000

It’s always fun to discover a new city and meet new people that are interested in the stuff you like and the technologies you work with.

To share what it’s like to code for Kiwi.com, we organised a Summer Camp for Senior Devs. We invited nine non-Kiwi devs to Barcelona to work on some projects with us, get to know our offices, and taste our beloved cava.

IDX + GraphQL = ❤️

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:57:00 +0000

IDX is a library for accessing arbitrarily nested, possibly nullable properties on a JavaScript object. At least this is how it is described in the documentation. What does this mean in reality and why is it such a big problem in JavaScript? And why is it so important when working with GraphQL?

GraphQL: Server-side Subscriptions

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:36:00 +0000

OK, it’s 2k18 and everyone has already heard about GraphQL at least once. Maybe from your colleagues or even from some gopnik guys from the unfavourable areas of your city. GraphQL hype is everywhere.

SourceLift: flights for open source teams

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:36:00 +0000

Kiwi.com is giving away flights to open source teams that need to travel!

To boost the progress of FOSS projects and reward contributors with a well-deserved trip, we’re offering tickets to teams that need to:
a) Attend a conference, or
b) Organise a sprint / a workshop

The top 5 of effective React

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 20:35:00 +0000

I never thought that writing efficient React code required so little effort. In essence, it’s basically just a bunch of functions and classes spitting out markup, and occasionally interacting with each other.

Going from a small, pet project to a big-ass application is almost seamless — you build medium things from small things, and big things from medium things. Voilà, you have yourself an app!