Following up on my last post — React Hack: persisting data using local storage.. I wanted to explore more ways improve user experience and optimize applications for user convenience. This time is the idea that a user can export and import a file (app state as JSON).. This is definitely…

I’m here today to tell you about a super simple hack that will help to improve both your applications user experience, as well as your dev experience… It’s likely that most people can relate to a time when they were using an application, and whether they accidentally refreshed, or they…

Today we’re going to have a little fun looking at how JavaScript handles certain type combinations. This is something that I found intriguing after working entirely with TypeScript for the past few weeks. First, let’s take a look at some examples, take a moment to think about what the obvious…

If you’ve developed with React, chances are you learned using Create React App — the command line tool developed by Facebook that allows users to generate a new React App and utilize a preconfigured Webpack build. …

As a young (*not necessarily in age, just in general experience) developer, I have recently fallen in love with TypeScript… sure, it’s a bit more complex to understand and to set up a project with, but I’ve found several main advantages leading me to prefer TypeScript over JavaScript. While TypeScript…

“Command & Query Responsibility Separation” — I was recently introduced to the concept of Command & Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS), which if you’re unfamiliar, once explained will make perfect sense to you as well. The basic concept is that every method should be either a command to perform an action, or a query that returns data…

If you’ve ever built a React application of any decent size, you know just how quickly state management and passing props can get out of hand. The Flux pattern was designed by Facebook to assist with how data flows through an application, and while Flux itself is now in “maintenance…

Most people have probably heard the word “semantics” tossed around at least once in their life. It’s a word that sort of defines itself… but until I really took a step back to think about what it means, I didn’t exactly get the full picture. Semantics literally means “the meaning…

When it comes to API’s most people are initially introduced to and continue to utilize RESTful conventions, but GraphQL has been getting more and more popular in recent years. Today we’ll discuss the differences, and some of the benefits of utilizing GraphQL. What is GraphQL? Taken straight from the GraphQL website: “GraphQL is…