What Legos Can Teach Us About Reuse in React Apps
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...
React Pattern: Centralized PropTypes
Avoid repeating yourself by centralizing PropTypes
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.
Since PropTypes provide type warnings at runtime, it’s helpful … Read on...
Reusable Web Application Strategies
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:… Read on...
Public Speaking Transformed My Life…and Can Change Yours Too
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...
Here’s Why Client-Side Rendering Won
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...
The JavaScript Starter Kit Manifesto
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...
Why Do Developers Run Macs?
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...
A Week with the New Macbook Pro with Touch Bar
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...
Building a JavaScript Development Environment – Live on Pluralsight!
I just published my newest course on Pluralsight! Building a JavaScript application from scratch today is overwhelming. You have to make decisions about package management, bundling, linting, transpiling, automated testing, and more.
In fact, there are over 40 decisions … Read on...
Want to Code Faster? Timebox Impediments
Confession: Last week I burned an entire morning configuring SSH key authentication on our Enterprise Github account. I tried everything I could think of, but continued to receive authentication errors. When I was finally exhausted and out of ideas, I … Read on...