Nicolas Toulemont

Nicolas Toulemont, engineering blog

Full stack engineer in Paris. I love making large codebases scale and teams ship faster. I enjoy building product too, and write about what I learn doing both.

LatestArchitecture

Shipping a 2.0: redesigning a ten-year-old product one milestone at a time

How compound feature flags let 1.0 and 2.0 coexist during a ten-month redesign.

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Data Structures

The Tree

Typescript implementation of a tree.

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ReactArchitecture

The compound component pattern

A flexible component authoring pattern to give consumers a composition-based API

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ReactAnimations

How to build a datepicker from scratch

Building a nice datepicker with animations and gesture support

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General

The rise of multiframeworks paradigm in the frontend oss

Looking at the rising trend of library developed with support to many UI frameworks.

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GeneralReact

Immutable vs mutable, a recent use-case where purity and immutability caused performance issues

Using a mutable approach may lead to enormous performance gains.

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Career

Retraining for a web development career

This post explain how I would retrain as a web developer in late 2021

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GraphQL

GraphQL Typeguards

Exploring a few helpful graphql focus typeguards such as isType, isEither, isNot, isTypeInTuple

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GraphQL

How to build custom plugins for GraphQL Nexus

Buiding typesafe field level plugins to run field level middlewares with the graphql nexus framework.

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GraphQL

Full Stack Typescript GraphQL - Automate the data layer

Leverage GraphQL & Typescript codegen, documentation and observability across the stack

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Data Structures

The Hashtable

Typescript implementation of a basic hashtable with insert, get and remove methods.

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Data Structures

The Linked list

Typescript implementation of a linked-list.

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Data Structures

The Queue

Typescript implementation of a basic queue and of a priority queue.

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Data Structures

The Stack

Typescript implementation of a stack.

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