React Hooks is the new hotness in the React world. I’m writing steadily more and more of them and I thought it would be useful to have a cheatsheet to refer back to which encompasses the basic hooks as well as the intricacies of useEffect. Check out the official Hooks API Reference for more in-depth […]
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I’ve been writing production TypeScript for a little over year and as a hobby for a couple of years longer than that. If you’ve never used TypeScript before, the quick way to describe it is that it’s ES2015+ and types thrown together. Ie. modern JavaScript with real typing. TypeScript is awesome and I love writing […]
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Very recently, I started working on an HTML/CSS side project and I found myself in a state of panic. I haven’t worked on plain HTML/CSS in a while. JavaScript has been part of my workflow for years and the output of that JavaScript was always a single page app. In fact, I haven’t worked on […]
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A quick conceptual intro to using Javascript’s ES2016 feature: async/await as a replacement for callbacks and Promises.
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Bootstrap hasn’t gotten a major update in a few years. My frequently-search Bootstrap 3 article is a great testament. I was going to pull it or point people to the right place when I realized that 4 isn’t out yet! Well, we’ll cover a preview today. What we’re going to do is attempt to build […]
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It’s no secret that Redux took the front-end world by storm. Flux had people in doubts but it offered hope and when Redux reared its head, we realized that things can be simple and front-end state management can be simpler than “I hope it works!”. But for many, Redux is quite an enigma. From its […]
Read More9mA few weeks ago, I decided to dive into Redux and make the experience of learning Redux as simple as possible. As with all of my high-quality guides (yeah, I’m selling myself here), I try to go through the simplest application possible that not only demonstrates all of the core features, but also shows actual […]
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A few weeks ago, I made a presentation and a youtube video introducing Angular (and JS developers in general) to ReactJS. It seems like React became a framework many want to try but somehow, it’s always out of reach. A part of the reason for that is that there’s not a “why” attached to the […]
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Decouple your Angular modules from your Angular app and learn the art of Dependency Injection, in a nutshell.
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Last Saturday, I gave yet another talk on getting started with AngularJS and with good success. I found myself wondering though, along the way, why is it that we keep needing these “getting started” talks with Angular? What makes it so complicated? Why do we need endless “basic” tutorials? I think the answer lies in […]
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