State of the art in CSS

This article touches on the latest trends in CSS for big web applications (usually SPA). I don’t try to question whether it is the right or wrong direction, rather try to list all of them.

The Most Clever Line of JavaScript

Recently my friend sent me a very interesting JS snippet, which he found in one open-source library:

addressParts.map(Function.prototype.call, String.prototype.trim);

Smart and Dumb Components in React

In early days of single-page applications, we used to hardcode a lot of stuff, and very often we ended up with a lot of chunks of code, which did not make a lot of sense outside of their page. In other words, very often code was tighly coupled. For instance, in Angular…

My experience from real-world webapps tasks for job interviews

Recently, I was in the process of finding a new job, and because my main expertise is javascript, all my applications required a test in frontend (usually in React.js) and Node.js. They are not very different — some basic…