Here’s a question I’ve heard a few times recently:
“What if we create a component library in React/Vue/Angular/whatever and a new component technology replaces it?”
That’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when. These technologies have become … Read on...
Today many web apps are built using React, Angular, Vue, Ember, etc. These modern client-side rendered apps often call web APIs that are hosted on separate servers. This creates a problem: how do … Read on...
React is a component library. So React makes it easy to break your UI down into composable pieces. The question is, how granular should the pieces be?
Let’s consider a … Read on...
There are three popular ways to handle types in React: PropTypes, TypeScript and Flow. This post is about PropTypes, which are currently the most popular.
… Read on...📊 For enforcing types in React, I typically use…
Imagine your team just deployed an amazing todo list app. A month later, another team in your company wants to run your todo app within their invoice app.
So now you need to run your todo app in two spots:
A Call For Speakers…From 40,000 Feet
I’m writing this from a bar…that’s floating somewhere over Greenland. I just enjoyed a complimentary 3 course meal with wine, cheesecake, tea, and Baileys to top things off. After lunch, I finished editing my … Read on...
A decade ago, nearly everyone was rendering their web applications on the server using technologies like ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, Java, and PHP.
Then handy libraries like jQuery showed up, and suddenly server-side rendering everything didn’t necessarily make sense anymore. … Read on...
My talk from Nodevember just went live on YouTube! This is my sales pitch: Starting from scratch today in JavaScript is crazy. The solution? Your team needs a JavaScript Starter Kit.
I’d love to hear you feedback on the talk!… Read on...
I spoke at Fluent conference in San Francisco in March of 2015. I looked out in the crowd as I was setting up and saw this:
At every front-end oriented conference I attend, it’s a sea of glowing Apple logos. … Read on...
I purchased the new Macbook Pro (MBP for short, below) with Touch Bar one week ago. I chose the maxed out “standard” model for $2,799 at the local Apple store: 15″ i7/2.7/16gb/512gb. I also own an early 2015 13″ Macbook … Read on...
