Introduction Picture this: you’re coding along on a task and suddenly you’re stuck. You go through all the strategies and tools you can think of to find a solution, but can’t seem to figure out the issue. You might feel frustrated, perhaps starting to look for distractions to procrastinate on. You’ve…

Introduction When a developer approaches a problem, they usually have a clear objective. Fix this bug, create that component, refactor this implementation. We are very goal oriented by nature. We have an objective that we need to get to, and we have to try all the techniques we’ve learned in order…

An introduction to the popular JavaScript framework for handling side effects — The front end team at Takeaway.com has been working hard to migrate our main web application to a modern JavaScript stack. We are building the new front end application with Next.js, React, and Redux Saga. When we started, my experience was mostly with Redux Thunk and Redux Promise. …