Published inBetter Programming·Feb 1, 2021Member-onlyWrite Vue Like You Write ReactLeverage stateless solutions in stateful components — With the Vue 3 Composition API, you can write functional components. It’s possible also with React, but React has different templating: JSX. What happens if we write Vue functional components with JSX templates? Are they similar to React functional components? Let’s look at how the functional components of each of…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published inEmarsys Craftlab·Sep 4, 2020Member-onlySvelte testing crash courseYou have nearly finished your project, and only one feature is left. You implement the last one, but bugs appear in different parts of the system. You fix them, but another one pops up. You start playing a whack-a-mole game, and after multiple turns, you feel messed up. But there…Svelte8 min readSvelte8 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Jul 13, 2020Member-onlyWhy You Might Not Need Vuex With Vue 3Reactivity in Vue 3 introduces new ways to structure your app — Vuex is an awesome state management library. It’s simple and integrates well with Vue. Why would anyone leave Vuex? The reason could be that the upcoming Vue 3 release exposes the underlying reactivity system and introduces new ways of structuring your application. …Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jun 4, 2020Member-onlyThe Vue 3 upgrade guideThe release of Vue 3 is just around the corner. We can expect a faster, smaller, more maintainable version with a lot of new exciting features. Mostly these are additions and improvements over the existing API. Nothing is stopping you from starting your new applications with Vue 3. In this…JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Published inEmarsys Craftlab·May 13, 2020Member-onlyReact testing crash courseYou have nearly finished your project, and only one feature is left. You implement the last one, but bugs appear in different parts of the system. You fix them, but another one pops up. You start playing a whack-a-mole game, and after multiple turns, you feel messed up. But there…React8 min readReact8 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jan 28, 2020Member-onlyA simple Node.js Docker workflowDocker is a great tool that helps developers build, deploy, and run applications more efficiently in a standardized way. We can develop in the same environment as the app running in production. You can speed up the debugging or even the prevention of upcoming bugs by having the same setup…Docker4 min readDocker4 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jan 16, 2020Member-onlyFrontend Development with Docker: A simplified guideDocker is a great tool that helps developers build, deploy, and run applications more efficiently in a standardized way. For frontend applications, we only need the Docker image for local development, because we deploy it to a static hosting provider. In this case, can we live without a custom Docker…Docker5 min readDocker5 min read
Published inEmarsys Craftlab·Dec 17, 2019Member-onlyVue Testing Crash CourseYou have nearly finished your project, and only one feature is left. You implement the last one, but bugs appear in different parts of the system. You fix them, but another one pops up. You start playing a whack-a-mole game, and after multiple turns, you feel messed up. But there…JavaScript8 min readJavaScript8 min read
Published inEmarsys Craftlab·Nov 8, 2019Member-onlyThe tale of three dots in JavascriptOnce upon a time, there was a significant upgrade to the Javascript language called ES6/ES2015. It introduced many different new features. One of them was the three consecutive dots that we can write in front of any compatible container (objects, arrays, strings, sets, maps). These tiny little dots enable us…JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Oct 22, 2019Member-onlyThe Secret Power of JSON.StringifyThere’s more to it than meets the eye — There are many functions in JavaScript that do their job. We use them daily, but we don’t know about their extra features. One day, we look at the documentation and realize it has many more features then we have imagined. The same thing has happened with JSON.stringify and me. In…JavaScript2 min readJavaScript2 min read
