Improve your way of conditionally render React components with these custom hooks. — One of the most loved aspects of React is the way it allows to conditionally render components and single elements. A feature that, among many others, brought the library to be the most loved in the JavaScript ecosystem. Since we base all our conditionals on truthiness and falsehood, we use…

Set and use a global CSS variable to change the base font size of your page. — Following the first article about React Custom Hooks, today we’ll see how to simplify and reuse across our apps another piece of logic, enhancing our skills as React developers little by little. I’m talking about the useFontSize custom hook, let’s see together why is it so useful! Why the need for a useFontSize hook? Using the Medium…

Make simple persisting data on the localStorage with React to save user preferences. — After I started creating my own design system mountain-ui, I thought what I’ve learned so far in my career and what I’ve been applying in its implementation could be of good use for other developers who’d like to learn better how to exploit the React API at its full potential. …

What you may have missed while using the useReducer hook — When the React team rolled out version 16.8 and brought the hooks paradigm to our community, things started to quickly change in the way we used to write our code. useState came as a cleaner solution to keep track of our values across rerenders. useContext has been another game-changer, making…

Enhance your versioning flow with these npm CLI tips — npm, the most used Node.js package manager in the world, has been a real game changer for JavaScript developers since its first release in 2010. Such progress in code shareability grew the community around JavaScript exponentially, making this programming language one of the most loved in the IT world. Now…

And how I so defeated the procrastination. — This summer literally destroyed my productivity. At the beginning of 2020, I was really trying to give my best every day, the mindset was about “I don’t want to waste my day.”, and to be honest it was working pretty well. I was getting tasks done faster at work, my…

And so avoid installing heavy dependencies — Frontend development evolved really fast since the adoption of npm modules: hundreds of thousand packages have been released thanks to the Open Source world, making available dependencies for any developer’s need. However, sometimes the problems we face don’t require a complex logic, meaning we can implement what is required even…

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” — Albert Einstein — According to SlashData, in 2019 the world reached 26.4 million active software developers. Whether you’ve been in IT since the beginning of your career or you just started, the question you should ask yourself is the same: Do I really know programming? The Two Programmers Though countless shades and differences exist between programmers…

And why you should keep working remotely. — Being a software developer, remote work has been an attractive perk in my career decisions. It gives you the chance to work from different places, maybe different countries, helping you to better exploit your time. Pause. This sounds amazing, I know. But I’d like to reflect a second on the…