What if you don’t want to expose all of your store’s fields? — A MobX store is a powerful tool for observing changes in React. Being able to react to any field and set any field without the boilerplate of setter methods is a breeze. But what if you don’t want to expose all of your store’s fields? With just a few changes…

Get out of here flex and margins — let’s rebuild Trello’s UI using only CSS Grid — I love CSS Grid — you can build almost any layout you can dream up with it! Today I want to deconstruct Trello’s main user interface and rebuild it using CSS Grid as the main foundational component. Normally, I develop using React and styled-components, but to allow this guide to…

Developers have their own exclusive language. You’ve heard it, I’m guilty of it— you’re in the middle of a meeting and you’re discussing a task when suddenly the developers turn to each other and say, “Don’t we have the API key hard coded in that endpoint?” “No, we’ve deprecated that…

Even if you’re a top-tier developer, a solid understanding of the more practical side of English grammar can help you really stand out. There’s quite a few tasks in a software developer’s daily life that rely on high quality communication: Communicating via email/messaging Code reviews Writing documentation Writing blog posts …

So you just finished learning all about JavaScript Promises and you go to strut your stuff among the web development elite on your team when someone says, “Do you use async/await too?” Uh oh. You play it cool and run back to your laptop and pull up this article. Good…

Who uses the cursor anyway? — Latest and greatest frameworks and design patterns are cool and all, but let’s get down to what we developers really care about: keyboard shortcuts. There are few things in life that are quite as satisfying as the moment you learn a new keyboard shortcut and realize that your life will…

It’s time, friend. Maybe you’re new to web and trying to pick up the latest front-end tech, or maybe you’re a seasoned web developer, but have just been putting off fully understanding promises. async/await is a fresh take on asynchronous JavaScript, but it’s built upon promises, so it’s well worth…

You know you have a good idea. I know you have a good idea. But others don’t seem to be convinced — maybe you get passed over in the meeting room, or your project proposals go unread. But no more! Let’s explore some reasons why your ideas may not be…

The golden rule is simple: “Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them” — Matthew 7:12a This of course differentiates itself from the negative so-called “silver rule” that states “don't do to others what you wouldn't want them to do to you.” …