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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Loads of people have been asking me how I write my JavaScript — okay, that’s a lie, no one asks me that but if they did, I’d like to point them to this article. I adopted my code style over the years, after reading Clean Code (and other books), after using years of PHP. Yes, […]
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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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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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Big questions that’s often asked on a variety of forums. “What can I do to become a developer?” The question has puzzled many and often yields a list of books (that no one other than the poster has/will read), list of websites (that are WAY too advanced), and a battle over languages and definitions. Very pointless.
Read More10mWhen business-owners and designers think front-end, they think design implementation. When I think of front-end, I think of everything that does not include server-side interaction (other than AJAX). Front-end developers are not “just” concerned with looks, they’re concerned with performance, compatibility, degradation and so much more. Well, I’ve been scouring the ‘net and found really cool javascript code that will help you leverage some performance and modern-style coding into your website.
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