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Corey Snyder

Corey Snyder

Engineering Manager at Root leading the App Platform and Direct Insurance teams; responsible our iOS, Android, and Web Apps. I have independently developed & released multiple mobile & web games.

Columbus, Ohio •
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Angular2React - How to make $injector globally available using ReactJS Context API.
ReactJS

Angular2React - How to make $injector globally available using ReactJS Context API.

How to use ReactJS Context API to make an object globally available?

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    Corey Snyder
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My Yearly Reading List

My Yearly Reading List

What am I reading right now? What books did I read last year, and what did I think about them?

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    Corey Snyder
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AngularJS

Unit testing react2angular components with Karma Jasmine and Enzyme

I have been using react2angular library for plugging ReactJS components into my AngularJS Application so that I could start writing ReactJS today without having to migrate over the entire application. The real power

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    Corey Snyder
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ES6 & Other JS Tips

Creating Copies of Arrays & Objects Array Copies var squares = Array(9).fill(null); // Creates an array with 9 nulls var copyOfSquares = squares.slice() // Creates a copy of squares. This comes with a

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    Corey Snyder
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Webpack, learning to share

Currently our web application is 18+ AngularJS SPAs. Each of them operates in it's own docker container and each has it's own webpack configuration, though they're all derived from the same base config

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    Corey Snyder
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ReactJS Notes

This is a place where I'm keeping notes on some of the things I come across that I found helpful in my quest to learn React and that I may want to reflect

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    Corey Snyder
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Hot Motors & Video Noise on Piroflip Team Edition Combo Package

My Original Query: Hoping to get some help on my Team Edition Combo Package. I got it all built up and tested it a race Saturday. I only flew 2 packs on it

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    Corey Snyder
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Our micro-front-end web architecture

Preface Currently, I am the Front-End Engineer on our development team. My job, outside of developing much of the front-end portion of our new product development, is to focus on overall Front-End architecture

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    Corey Snyder
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It has begun! Moving from Angular 1.6 to ReactJS

It has begun! Moving from Angular 1.6 to ReactJS

This is an active WIP post. It will get updated as I work through things. If you missed my previous post, I detail the current State of the Union at Aver where we

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    Corey Snyder
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One accidental line in LESS file added nearly a MB to our app.bundle.js code, and how I caught it.

One accidental line in LESS file added nearly a MB to our app.bundle.js code, and how I caught it.

I was randomly taking a look at our webpack stats visualizations and I saw something that really caught my eye. For one, our app.bundle.js code had jumped quite a bit in

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    Corey Snyder
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ES6 Things to remember

In an attempt to brush up on my ES6 skills I'm creating a cheatsheet to reflect back on as I'm writing my code to remember to take advantage of some of these features

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    Corey Snyder
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AngularJS

Getting open in new tab with CMD+Click to work with ng-click

I got a bug card which detailed that at some point CMD+Click stopped working on one of our pages. The culprit ended up being when we switched from using a standard <

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    Corey Snyder
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RTFQ Camera Control Board

RTFQ Camera Control Board

Ok, In this video I'm looking at the NEW Camera control Add-on board from ReadyToFlyQuads. So you may have a seen some of the newer flight controllers coming out, like the CL Racing

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    Corey Snyder
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The Brushless Whoop Saga continues | PART 3

The Brushless Whoop Saga continues | PART 3

If you haven't been following my string of issues in an attempt to build a brushless tiny whoop you can find Part 1 and Part 2 here. Failsafe issues & solutions Since part

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    Corey Snyder
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New Products from ReadyToFlyQuads

I have some of the latest products coming in from RTFQ and I am curious what people think about them. RTFQ Freestyle Flight Controller V15 http://www.readytoflyquads.com/rtf-freestyle-flight-controller-v15 I haven't dug

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    Corey Snyder
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Team Black Sheep releases TBS UNIFY PRO NANO | Is it Revolutionary?
Quadcopters

Team Black Sheep releases TBS UNIFY PRO NANO | Is it Revolutionary?

My day got started off right! I opened my email to find a message from "Trappy" at Team Black Sheep that they released a new Unify pro, this one specifically designed

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    Corey Snyder
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Airbot Nox 2.17 Review & Guide

Airbot Nox 2.17 Review & Guide

Airbot is back at it again offering next-generation technologies in Flight Controllers and ESCs in a single compact and reliable board. Today we're looking at the NOX 2.17 From Airbot.com. The

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    Corey Snyder
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GTAV FPV Drone Mod is the best way to practice your flippy floppies!

GTAV FPV Drone Mod is the best way to practice your flippy floppies!

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    Corey Snyder
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Drones

Brushless Whoop Saga | PART 2

Ok, if you didn't see my first try at building a brushless whoop check it out here. Since then I have rebuilt the quad using the larger Rakon Delrin frame which can swing

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    Corey Snyder
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Brushless Whoop Saga | PART 1
Drones

Brushless Whoop Saga | PART 1

My first attempt at building a brushless tiny whoop and some of the things I learned along the way.

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    Corey Snyder
4 min read
Micro Build Info (2017-2018 Winter Season)
Drones

Micro Build Info (2017-2018 Winter Season)

Micro-build parts list For my own sanity I'm going to try and keep a running list of some of the builds & parts that I hear about on Facebook for micro (2"

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    Corey Snyder
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We won the CAHL D-East Championship!

We won the CAHL D-East Championship!

It has been quite a while since we've got deep in the playoffs but Sunday my team, Hamilton Mustangs, won the CAHL D-East 2017 Winter Championship!

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    Corey Snyder
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Development Tools

Converting into HTML5/JS games

Want to convert your games into HTML5 & JavaScript? Check out some of the resources below. https://github.com/kripken/emscripten http://www.mandreel.com/ https://developers.google.com/playn/ http://phonegap.com/

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    Corey Snyder
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Web Dev Tools I use
Development Tools

Web Dev Tools I use

Browser - Chrome Mostly, but you really have to check your content in all of the browsers you plan to support. IDE - WebStorm / PyCharm / IntelliJ Regex - GSkinner JSON Viewer CSS Buttons:

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    Corey Snyder
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Drones

Full Builds

I build A LOT of FPV Race dones. At one point I was building 2-3 per week though I've really been trying to pump the breaks on that. Ocassionally I turn on the

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    Corey Snyder
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