Many clients see a technical lead and project manager as admin overhead: roles you can cut to save money. In our experience, they are the difference between a project that ships well and one that quietly falls apart after launch. When MantraX takes on a project, a senior member of our team leads it personally. […]
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash A large software project is one of the biggest bets a business makes, whether it is custom development, a legacy system modernization or an AI initiative. The budget is real, the implementation and timeline affect operations, and the result will be part of your daily work for years. Yet […]
“Why would I pay your rates when someone quoted me a third of that using AI?” A question we hear more often now. Fair question. Here is our honest answer. We use AI too. Extensively. Our own product, Discreetly AI, was built with AI as a constant collaborator. So the difference is not who uses […]
There’s an old carpentry proverb: when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Somewhere around 2015, the software industry handed every developer a hammer labelled “microservices” and told them Netflix used it. Ever since, we’ve been pounding perfectly good screws into the wall and wondering why the drywall keeps […]
In this article, we will walk you through on how to use Visual Code Code (“VS Code”) to work on a remote machine such as a VM or a remote desktop. As developers, as we work through different projects, our computers keep getting filled with various SDKs, CLI tools, frameworks, and packages. Wouldn’t it be […]
In this article we will share how Mantrax is using Generative AI (when it makes sense) to improve productivity and deliver projects sooner. While we don’t want our developers to simply “ChatGPT” their way through projects, it is also undeniable that using Generative AI carefully can lead to productivity gains which in turn, deliver projects […]
This article explores JavaScript Autoboxing and is part of our Byte Sized series. Let’s start by looking at this simple code snippet We know that a string in JavaScript is a primitive type (that is, it has no methods or properties), but here is looks like that the variable myString is an object with a […]
Table of Contents What is Software Testing Software Testing is the process of evaluating and verifying that a software application or system meets specified requirements and functions correctly. The primary goal of software testing is to gather information about the product and its users, analyze requirements from the user’s perspective, identify defects, ensure the quality […]
Angular is a platform and popular framework for building scalable web applications. This blog post covers its role in web development, key advantages, and a guide to developing Angular applications. Topics include Angular’s history, architecture, performance tools, RxJS, state management with NgRx and NGXS, dependency injection, directives, pipes, and testing methodologies. Learn more on Mantrax’s […]
In software application development, the term ‘front end’ refers to the client-side interface of the application or the part of a service that end users interact with directly. It covers all aspects of the user interface on an application or a website including the design, layout, and interactive features that enhance the user experience. This […]
