TSLint is dead

… or at least it smells like it.

First things first: I’m not a maintainer of TSLint and not affiliated with Palantir, the company behind the tool. Opinions are my own, but feel free to adopt them.

React, TypeScript and defaultProps dilemma

a.k.a. “Solving a million dollar problem”

Node.js module.exports vs. exports

What are they, how to use them and how not to use them

(Note that this article was written after the Node.js 6.1.0 release)

TL;DR

• Think of…

Check out these useful ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) tips and tricks

MobX 4: Better, simpler, faster, smaller

..and still, MobX 5 will be even more awesome 😺

Becoming fully reactive: an in-depth explanation of MobX

Michel, this is a nice intro to MobX and I’ve heard great things about it, however, this is a pretty naive argument for getting away from `setState`.

Addressing the issues that you mentioned above:

1. `setState` accepts a function to be called after the state change occurs as a second argument. So all…

No I wouldn’t pull in a new library indeed to address just these problems. But if you have MobX in place anyway, or want a reason to try and learn MobX at small scale, maybe in just a single component, here are some :)

3 Reasons why I stopped using React.setState

Since a few months I’ve stopped using React’s setState on all my new React components. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t stop having local component state, I just stopped using React to manage it. And it’s been delightful!

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