Tom Szpytman
Full-stack Software Engineer. Typescript+React, Python+Django.
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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…
Stop adding unnecessary DOM elements
The nature of frontend development means that we often find ourselves iterating over lists of objects and displaying them in some way. Quite often these objects have single attributes that we want to print out, e.g. users.map((user) => user.name), or we pass these…
Migrating from jQuery to ES6 promises
If you’re reading this blog, chances are that at some point you’ve used jQuery to build/partially build a website. jQuery definitely has its uses (more so in the past than now), but some of its constructs, like its promises/deferred objects, conflict with today’s…