Examples of how to increase your app reliability — Testing is a part of front-end development that I often see forgotten, yet it can play a major role in the reliability of a project. In developing Streamroot’s brand new customer-facing dashboard (which you can read about here and see here), we put in place a full testing suite to…

Inputs, fetches, controlled dropdowns and refs. — Hooks have landed. They allow you to simplify your class-heavy code by quite a lot. Let’s explore some common use-cases where hooks provide an instant benefit in reducing code complexity. What is a hook Hooks are a new feature introduced in React 16.8 that allow you to express a local “state” without needing a…

Solving the problem of sharing child state with a parent component — A modal is a popup usually triggered from a button with the purpose of providing a new window to perform an action before being able to return to the main page.

Easier than setting up react with it — A few weeks ago I wanted to experiment with react-native. Mobile development has always interested me. Since you can now write applications with just JavaScript, why not leverage this opportunity and make use of Typescript? Why Typescript? Typescript offers a lot more on top of JavaScript and React. Just the safety of…

Smaller bundles, faster apps — Webpack is an awesome technology, it allows you to bundle, hot reload, minify, code split, polyfill and so much more. Most of these things are done by webpack by default, others require some custom additions to your webpack configuration to enable them. All these features have one purpose, making apps…

So easy it’s underwhelming — Few days ago I wanted to try Typescript with React. So, I started to play around with a simple React boilerplate to see how difficult it would be to switch it from vanilla JavaScript to Typescript. Using babel 7 it turned out to be simpler than I expected. I was a…

Tips and tricks from someone on the other side — Recently, I’ve been helping a few self-taught developers with mock interviews to prepare them for their journey into the industry. Here my 2 cents about how to prepare yourself effectively for non-technical interviews as a self-taught developer. Getting to the interview The first step is always the hardest. …

Reflections one year after getting my dream job — On 28th April 2017, I woke up around 9 am, checked the phone for notifications, as I do every morning, and in the spam of “Happy Birthday” messages there was an email, from the company I dreamed of working for — Prezly just hired me as remote JavaScript developer. It…

I did it for 2017 and it was the best choice I’ve made that year — 100 Days of Code is a challenge invented by Alexander Kallaway, it is quite simple: Code a minimum of one hour every day for 100 days. Log your progress by forking the official GitHub repository. Share your progress on twitter daily. Why? My main goal with this challenge was to solidify…