When React was released, many people took one look at JSX and lost their minds. What are these angle brackets doing in JavaScript?! What about separation of concerns? Has Facebook learned nothing from the community?
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I just wrapped up six months of hard work authoring my new Pluralsight course “Building Applications with React and Flux“. During that time I dissected over 30 open source projects in an effort to establish common patterns and … Read on...
It’s live! I just published a new course on Pluralsight: “Building Applications with React and Flux“. This is the product of over six months of preparation including the creation of a rich demo application that implements the core … Read on...
In the land of JavaScript, no one is king for long.
Just last year Grunt was effectively dethroned by Gulp. And now, just as Gulp and Browserify are finally reaching critical mass, Webpack threatens to unseat them both. Is there … Read on...
There are dozens of solid ways to level up as a developer. Online video, blogs, niche mailing lists, books, reading source code on GitHub, and of course simply building something. So how do conferences compete? What are … Read on...
I’ve both taken and created a lot of coding interviews throughout the years. And I’ve learned there are many ways to screw it up. The worst tests feel like a way to make the interviewer feel smart by probing for … Read on...
Disclaimer: While I’ve experimented with MongoDB, I haven’t deployed it to production. These are my honest reservations that keep me from deploying a production app in Mongo. I welcome comments from those who have spent time in the trenches.
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I’ve spent the last many years religiously honoring the principle of separation of concerns. Separating concerns produces code that’s easier to read, maintain, and test. Right? Well, as I’ve found, virtually every “best practice” has exceptions. We have to … Read on...
When working with RequireJS, you’re likely to run across two modules that need to reference each other. When you create a circular reference using the standard RequireJS define statement on both sides, the module that’s loaded last fails and is … Read on...
Have you ever thought about how many HTTP requests your app is wasting? Many developers think the native caching mechanisms of browsers are sufficient. However, did you know every time a page is loaded, an HTTP request is still typically … Read on...