TypeScript. You either love it, or hate it … or are terrified of it. But it could be a valuable tool that benefits your workflow. This article, originally published in Net magazine, shows you how to get started with TypeScript
Working as part of a larger team often involves skills that aren’t readily taught as part of a person’s development career. But they are essential if you’re going to be developing software as part of a team.
reduce() has terrified me for some time! I hadn’t wanted to touch this new array method because I couldn’t quite follow what each of it’s properties meant. But recently I had an opportunity to deep dive into this function. Here’s how I refactored an object to get the results I needed
I wrote this post for Net Magazine issue 320. I wanted to showcase how I have begun using React Hooks, and hilight some best practices to follow for better accessibility.
How do we not get overloaded with what’s going on in web development, but not left behind either? Should we try to keep up with latest trends that might fade away into nothing? Here’s my take on how (and why) I continue to learn about web development.
Build for complexity and performance in this deep dive into React’s Context API. This article was originally published in Net Magazine.
If we we’ve spent any time developing, specifically with JavaScript, we’ve seen the White Screen of Death. Nothing renders to the screen, and the only way of investigating the issue we caused is by opening the console and looking at the stack trace.
Many people I respect and admire have voiced conflicting opinions on their blogs and Twitter recently. I wanted to reply in general with reference to a song that pops into my head every time I hear those conflicting opinions being discussed.
When you start a Node web server using it’s HTTP interface you will by default run on a specific host that resolves to 127.0.0.1, your localhost. Here’s how to access your NodeJS server on Mac in Windows using Parallels.
I’m not proud of the code I wrote today. In fact, I hated it. But that’s okay, it did what it needed to. And I’m going to redo it tomorrow.