One month ago, I switched from a MacBook Pro with Touchbar to Surface Book 2. Short of a miracle, I won’t likely be going back any time soon. Why switch? My wife and I have owned Apple devices exclusively since 2012 when she got her first MacBook Pro. Since then, we’ve at some point owned pretty much everything: MacBook Air, the new MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro with Touchbar, 27” iMac, iPads, iPad Pros, iPhones, and heck even our router is the Airport Extreme.

So once again I am hearing rumors that React may be coming to Service Portal. I know many folks who were upset with the use of AngularJS in Service Portal and even with the general lack of modern frameworks built into ServiceNow. But what if the future was now (thanks to science)? Well, today I spent some time at lunch exploring that possibility and it turns out React may have been able to work within Service Portal just fine all along.

This year has already kicked off strong and there is a lot that is in the works! Here’s a few things you can expect and a few things I am considering on CodeCreative in 2019. Hugo, We Go! The first big change of 2019 for CodeCreative was a migration from SquareSpace to a Hugo static site. SquareSpace is great if you use their themes but unfortunately I used a custom theme for CodeCreative.

Back to Interface Design Patterns for Script Includes Introduction The Revealing Module pattern can easily imitate either the Class Pattern or the Namespace Pattern with the added advantage of private state and private functions. This is most helpful in Scoped Applications where the app developer may prefer to keep implementation details hidden while exposing clear public interfaces. But it can also be used to help maintain clear API boundaries over time where traditional Javascript classes and objects would tend towards bloat.

Back to Interface Design Patterns for Script Includes Introduction The Global Include pattern is simply a way of running a script file held in a Script Include. It is an odd, powerful, and potentially dangerous tool that allows for many different purposes from leveraging external javascript libraries to importing a collection of functions into the global scope, to monkey patching. One of the most useful purposes is monkey patching which allows us to modify behaviors of existing Script Includes and even ServiceNow provided classes.