Recently I came across a project written in TypeScript that was established in 2014. That’s was only 2 years after the creation of TypeScript, and much, much before it’s increase in popularity. And as such, the project was starting to show it’s age. Some Background When the project began, much of the…

Upgrading to webpack v2 should be simple. And for the most part it is; the team has done an amazing job simplifying the exposed API and (more impressively) documenting the changes and providing upgrade paths. It took me about 25 minutes to get one of my projects (which I’ve written…

Async programming in JavaScript has always been a fairly advanced, convoluted, and somewhat annoying concept. I think every JS programmer gets asked more than one async question in an interview. Here’s one of my favorites: var Api = function() { var ret = []; for (var…

This is the story all about how I built (with the incalculable help of taco) a React/Redux Grid Component, appropriately (and boringly named) React-Redux-Grid. This is about how we started building a thing, how it changed along the way, the things we messed up, the things we learned, the things…