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Stale-while-revalidate

Stewart McGown

14/09/2026

Caching a restaurant is easy. Caching its menu, its availability, a search result containing it,...

Programmable Order Receipts with the Sunmi V2

Stewart McGown

14/09/2026

Ever wondered how you can manage a restaurant's order flow using an Android tablet and React...

Two routing providers and a straight line

Stewart McGown

14/09/2026

A routing service has one obvious job: tell you how to get from here to there. A delivery...

I built a fake delivery company to test the real one

Stewart McGown

14/09/2026

I've always been a proponent for testing complex systems . I built ecoeats before AI really took...

Your dinner is arriving in five minutes. Again.

Stewart McGown

14/09/2026

Working on ecoeats meant dealing with the uncomfortable fact that a delivery estimate isn't one...

Modelling Reusable Containers at ecoeats

Stewart McGown

14/09/2026

A takeaway box is a wonderfully simple object until you want it back. Then it needs an identity....

Beyond GraphQL

Stewart McGown

02/06/2026

No full post here yet. Just some musings on how I've been approaching entity normalisation at...

Intenso

Stewart McGown

21/06/2023

Brew very intense websites from ClickUp Docs

Projects

Stewart McGown

21/06/2023

Speed Up React Native Development with Utility Stylesheets 🚀

Stewart McGown

31/12/2021

Margin 8. Padding 16. Border radius 4. Again. When I was building React Native interfaces, the...

Typing Apollo GraphQL Queries with GraphQL-Zeus

Stewart McGown

28/12/2021

At ecoeats, we used a lot of GraphQL. Customers, riders, restaurants, dashboards: different...

NestJS GraphQL WebSockets

Stewart McGown

28/12/2021

Since the first iteration of ecoeats, I grappled with getting real-time data to customers, riders,...

Making CRUD feel Euphoric with Dynamic Forms - even in GraphQL

Stewart McGown

28/12/2021

When I launched ecoeats in February 2020, I chose GraphQL on NestJS for our API. It helped me build...