Alberto GasparinThe pitfalls of async operations via React Context APIReact provides a nice API to share state globally and across components but while working at scale in Jira discovered how it can become…Jul 11, 20196Jul 11, 20196
Alberto GasparinRethinking React dependency injectionDependency/component injection for testing purposes is not a new topic, but using props to solve is not the right approach…Jun 24, 20191Jun 24, 20191
Alberto GasparinReact-sweet-state: Redux and Context, the yummy partsFor the past months I’ve been part of the team responsible to transform Atlassian’s Jira into a modern SPA. We took this opportunity to…Jun 18, 20194Jun 18, 20194
Alberto GasparinUnstated and render props pitfalls for data fetchingOne of the new patterns getting popular across the React community is the render props pattern and Unstated is an experiment of using that…Aug 14, 2018Aug 14, 2018
Alberto GasparinFixing coin mining scripts abuse on the WebRecently, while surfing on my laptop, I noticed the fan suddenly starting making a lot of noise and, to my surprise, I saw in “Activity…Feb 6, 2018Feb 6, 2018
Alberto GasparinTesting frontend integration with 3rd party servicesHow to run integration tests of frontend code when you have no control over the API service (and the service has no test environment)?Dec 15, 20171Dec 15, 20171
Alberto GasparinForcing state reset on a React component by using the key propDid you know that you can use the key prop to force reset a component state? Most of the times you want to prevent that, but sometimes it…Dec 5, 20171Dec 5, 20171
Alberto GasparinManipulating cross origin images with HTML canvasHTML canvas interface implements a series of security related features that prevent cross domain manipulation unless explicitly allowed by…Oct 16, 20172Oct 16, 20172
Alberto GasparinGetting plain text from user input on a contenteditable elementIt is no news that HTML contenteditable is a mess, however it is challenging even getting a plain text value of the user input.Aug 25, 2017Aug 25, 2017
Alberto GasparinFixing export default on Webpack when bundling a libraryRequired workaround to properly distribute a library built with Typescript, Babel and Webpack.Aug 18, 20172Aug 18, 20172
