Mar 23, 2020

Theming Ant Design : a detailed step by step basic guide

Applying the theming guidelines provided by Ant Design’s documentation in an actual application

A series of colored sheets of paper neatly arranged — Photo by Hamed Daram on Unsplash

Ant Design is a very popular UI libraries for React. It provides a well designed and eminently composable collection of components.

However, it is very opinionated about styles. Its philosophy is not only to provide tools, but a whole conceptual approach for designing UIs. …

A proposal for clearer code review

Building a loose feedback framework from personal experience, both as a reviewer and a creator of pull requests.

A group of developer reviewing code — C o l l a b o r a t i o n. Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash

Source control is a collaboration tool

In today’s software development processes, Git is the de-facto standard for source control. Everything revolves around the project’s repository, and whether your team uses GitHub, Gitlab or any of the other providers, software developers will (hopefully) always rely on the following workflow:

Create a branch off master
Work (fix the…

Types of TypeScript typings

A brief overview of the different approaches TypeScript offers to make our React code type safe.

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Disclaimer: this article will use TypeScript in the context of React and assumes basic knowledge about React.

Freedom of choice is hard

It is obvious these days that TypeScript is here to stay in the web dev world, especially combined with React. …

Using React’s context API to provide a localization toolbox for your components

A brief overview of how to format time and numbers, how to make it relevant to a specific locale, and how to make it all easy with React’s context API.

Localization is hard

WooRank’s services are available in 6 languages : English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch and Portuguese. It gives us international reach, but it also means some headaches to keep everything consistent across the board.

Our services are based on data, on numbers and dates and values and ratios. And the funny…