Don't stop me now: improvements we shipped in November, December, and January

We worked on making Contentful the smoothest experience for developers and editor alike, and here's what we've come up with.

Davide Borsatto , on Feb 13, 2017

The global object in JavaScript: a matter of platforms, unreadable code and not breaking the internet

When I started programming one of the first things that I learned was that I should avoid the usage of global variables whenever possible. Personally, I think there’s a finite number of situations where I’d consider placing something in the global object. So when I discovered a new TC39 proposal whose aim is to add a new global property to access the global object in Javascript, I was puzzled yet intrigued, and I had to look into it.

Stefan Judis , on Jan 16, 2017

Building a Contentful Slack bot in the cloud with Gomix

After Gomix was announced, I just knew I had to try to build something with it! This is how I was able to write a functional Slack bot in less than 200 lines of JS code.

Stefan Judis , on Dec 20, 2016

Async and await in Contentful's .NET SDK

While working on Contentful's offical .NET SDK, I faced the question of how to deal with synchronous and asynchronous requests. Eventually I decided to use the full power of async and await, and here's why.

Robert Linde , on Dec 16, 2016

Emoji.prototype.length — a tale of characters in Unicode

Have you ever thought about how Emoji work behind the scenes? I looked into this topic, and I pretty much felt like Alice in Wonderland: there's so much I didn't know about it!

Stefan Judis , on Dec 6, 2016

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