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Development posts from the Add Jam team

Explore our 9 posts in the Development category. Gain expert insights and practical advice on this topic.

Simplifying Rails Controllers with Concerns - Real-world Examples from Our Projects header image

Simplifying Rails Controllers with Concerns - Real-world Examples from Our Projects

Looking to have improve your Rails project structure? Use Controller Concerns to keep our Rails controllers clean and maintainable. Learn from real-world examples Add Jam have in production.

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Choosing Your Tech Stack as a Startup: A Practical Guide for 2025

A no-nonsense guide to selecting the right technology stack for your startup. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and make decisions that will set your business up for success.

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How to use Rails Model Concerns

Learn how to use Ruby on Rails model concerns to build maintainable, scalable applications. Practical examples, best practices and code snippets from our decade of Rails development experience.

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Using Live Activities in a React Native App

A comprehensive guide to implementing and updating iOS Live Activities in your React Native application, with a focus on secure implementation patterns and authentication challenges.

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Improving React Native Testing with Jest Snapshots

Enhancing our React Native app's testing strategy by incorporating Jest snapshot tests to catch unintended changes and ensure our app's functionality remains stable.

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Tech Startup Trends in 2025

As we start a new year lets explore the key tech startup trends that we believe will be important in 2025, from AI in healthcare to EV infrastructure and privacy-first technology.

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Using paper to prototype your app design

Discover how a simple paper prototype, inspired by a toddler's creativity, can be a powerful tool in app design. Learn why you don't need fancy software to start bringing your ideas to life.

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Boost your productivity as a dev team by replacing Spotlight with Raycast

Discover how Raycast, a powerful alternative to macOS Spotlight, can make your development team more productive.

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Gems that Rock 2024 edition

An overview of useful Ruby gems we use on almost all our Ruby on Rails projects in 2024. Covering payments, pagination, authentications for your Ruby on Rails apps.

Recent case studies

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Educational Intelligence: Money Matters

Educational Intelligence: Money Matters

How Add Jam partnered with Educational Intelligence to create Money Matters, a digital platform addressing the UK's financial literacy crisis where 12.9 million adults struggle with money management.

Great Glasgow Coffee Run

Great Glasgow Coffee Run

Celebrating Glasgow's vibrant coffee culture and running community through an interactive digital experience that maps out the perfect coffee-fuelled running route through the city.

One Walk A Day

One Walk A Day

During lockdown we rapidly prototyped a health and wellbeing app using React Native then expanded on the concept and redeveloped using SwiftUI

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