Tom Szpytman
Full-stack Software Engineer. Typescript+React, Python+Django.
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Creating a React component from a reference to its class
I generally like to keep callback functions to a minimum. Passing around callback functions gets the job done, but you quickly end up with spaghetti-like code structures that are hard to navigate and debug. I’ve seen a fair number…
Do we need jQuery in 2018?
When I took over one of the projects I currently maintain, I was given a list of npm packages and was told that these shouldn’t be upgraded. As a rule of thumb, I always suggest that software developers keep their applications’ packages up-to-date. At the time, however, being new…
React Keys
No doubt every React developer has come across the big red console warning that React emits when it renders an array of elements that don’t have unique keys. The quick solution most developers turn to is, for each element in the array, set the element’s key to its index in the array. That is…