Delicious Reverie is a blog mostly about web development and JavaScript engineering. It's here I share talks I've given and articles I've had published. But it's my personal blog too, so you might find a few other things such as recipes, my musical interests and poetry reviews.
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2021 continued the trend of being more challenging than any period before it, in terms of maintaining some sort of normality to our lives. However there have been some really good things too. Here's a review of what I set out to achieve and what I want to achieve this year
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› Read more of "2021 Review / 2022 Aims"I recently heard the term 'Digital estate' to mean the technical property of an organisation. This, and the associations the term provides, have got me thinking about how we contribute to the success of organisations over time...
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› Read more of "On digital estates"Nx is a modular build framework for architecting and maintaining code projects. Using it means you configure once, then just focus on build your tools and apps. Nx can effectively manage the configuration around APIs, micro frontends and libraries of tools, so you don’t have to consciously think of this step each time it comes to building a new project. This is an article I wrote for the Purple Bricks tech blog on the subject.
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› Read more of "6 reasons why we chose Nx as our monorepo management tool"This post is a little bit of introspection for me. I've recently been given a bit of time to think about certain things, and I'd like a make a note of them for my own personal growth.
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› Read more of "Introspection: comparing myself to others, glorifying the past"Today I'm continuing with my trend of making silly mistakes so you don't have to. The subject today is asynchronous tests in Jest. I've spent too much time on this one, and I don't want you to have the same trouble!
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› Read more of "How to resolve Jest issues: tests passing, but code coverage fails!"There are so many choices when it comes to frameworks, and that's teriffic! But it could be bad news for people who struggle to make decisions. They might feel paralyzed just by the amount of choice that's on offer. So I made this with the aim of helping.
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› Read more of "What should I use to build my new project?"Next, Nuxt, Gatsby, SvelteKit ... there's been an explosion of frontend application frameworks lately. It's never been a more delightful experience to spin up a new project. What's the point of difference with this one? Why does it 'matter' so much?
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› Read more of "Why Astro matters"Sometimes I get frustrated with React, there can still sometimes be obscure errors that are a result of it's component lifecycle methods. But at least it means I can tell you about how to avoid them ...
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› Read more of "React: data fetching results in type error: object is not a function"Should I use CSS or JavaScript to perform this task? If you're asking yourself this question, I have an answer for you: use the lowest technology available to you which can complete the task.
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› Read more of "Lowest tech first"I've recently been introduced to the use of monorepos to manage projects and have a few thoughts on the idea.
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› Read more of "monorepos."“Wisest are they who know they do not know.”
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