I know what you’re thinking. WAT?! Didn’t Gulp just kill Grunt? Why can’t we just be content for a few minutes here in JavaScript land? I hear ya, but…
… Read on...I’ve found Gulp and Grunt to be unnecessary abstractions. npm scripts
Angular 2 versus React
Angular 2 has reached Beta and appears poised to become the hot new framework of 2016. It’s time for a showdown. Let’s see how it stacks up against 2015’s darling: React.
Disclaimer: I enjoyed working in Angular 1 but switched … Read on...
12 Rules for Professional JavaScript in 2015
Disclaimer: I speak in absolutes below for brevity. Yes, nearly every “rule” in programming has exceptions.
JavaScript is hard. It moves so fast that it’s often unclear whether you’re “doing it wrong” at any given moment. Some days it feels … Read on...
Internet Explorer 8 is (nearly) Dead
IE8’s death has been rumored for a long while, but the final nail in the coffin is coming January 12, 2016: Starting on that date, Microsoft will only support the most recent version of IE for supported OS’s . Vista … Read on...
React’s JSX: The Other Side of the Coin
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?
… Read on...Facebook: Rethink established best practices™
React Demo Apps
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...
Building Applications with React and Flux
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...
Webpack vs Browserify
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...
Conferences Are For Why, Not How
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...
What Makes a Great Coding Interview? Be Real.
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...