While having a vibe of a mad genius might be tempting, reinventing the wheel is usually not the best way to approach designing your software. The chances are that somebody already had the same problem as you and solved it in a smart way. Such best practices, when formalized, are called design patterns. Today we look into […]
React is constantly expanding, and with that process, there are a few cool features coming. One of them is Concurrent Mode. In this article, we go through its principles and discuss its current state. We also look at what the future might bring. The first thing to ask would be: what is the Concurrent Mode? […]
Writing a React form without any additional dependencies isn’t much of a challenge itself. The same goes for applying client-side data validation. What might be troublesome is keeping all your forms consistent across a bigger project. If every developer in your team has a slightly different approach, it may turn out to be messy. With […]
While learning about various JavaScript features, it is usually not crucial to know them by heart. Sometimes it is very beneficial just to know what’s out there and what can we use it for. One of those features is a JavaScript Proxy. In this article, we go through its functionalities and figure out some of its […]
Once our application is up and running, we want to deploy it. In this article, we explain what Continous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) is. We use Travis and Heroku as an example, but the knowledge can be used with other tools also. Both Travis and Heroku can be tried out for free. Continuous […]
The User Experience might be a bit subjective and hard to measure, but there are some parts of it that we can assess. In this article, we explore the User Timing API. With it, we can care for the performance of our applications even more. With a clear determinant of how the features that we implement […]
Our code can get quite complicated. The events handlers are triggered, the HTTP calls are made. We make a lot of stuff happen that we don’t know the outcome of. The more dependencies, the more difficult it is to predict how the function might behave. In this article, we strive to make our code more […]
Regular expressions can help us solve many different problems. They can also be the source of our headaches. A recent Cloudfare outage happened due to a regular expression that caused CPU to spike to 100% on (…) machines worldwide. In this article, we go through situations we need to watch out for like the catastrophic backtracking. To help […]
We all surely aim for our applications to be bug-proof. A part of it is covering your application with tests. Also, Airbnb claims that 38% of their bugs could have been prevented by TypeScript. We are not going to avoid all issues, unfortunately. A part of our job is to prepare for that and React […]
The JavaScript is present in mobile apps development for quite some time now. Tools like React Native and Cordova have been around for years. Another valuable tool that we can use are Progressive Web Apps, and in this article, we go through the process of installing them. We also take a look at the current […]