As an employee, Zenefits has a huge issue: their data model assumes you will have one account per employer. A common trick for stupid systems like that is to simply append a “+something” on your email so it would be “cymen.vig+a@example.com” for one employer and…

A lot of examples of using Redux show it in simplistic ways — the store is created as a local constant in one module and then others access it via the JSX helpers. But what do you do when you want to access the store programmatically? It turns out to be really simple and I’ll outline how I did…

I have been working with React which is a JavaScript library from Facebook that makes it easy to create well-performing HTML views (without having to worry about optimizing). With React, your JavaScript can tell the view to rerender over and over and it will take care of only changing…

In 2014, I joined a startup and began rewriting their single page web application. One developer had been working on that particular part of the site and it was long in tooth. Startups need to iterate fast and try new ideas and their codebases…