Evan Schultz
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Improving your mental model of useEffect
Hooks landed in React a few months ago, and there has been a lot of excitement around them in terms of figuring out how to best use them, best practices, and how they map to current concepts in React and the lifecycle.
Frontend Development
Refactor to React Hooks, Not Classes
JavaScript and its ecosystem are evolving at a rapid pace. As new frameworks, libraries, and features get added JavaScript fatigue can start to set in.
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Simplifying React Forms with Hooks
Forms, like death and taxes, are one of the unavoidable aspects of web development. From Login Forms, Contact Pages, to heavy form-centric applications - at some point, you will need to wire up an input field to your application state. Working with forms in React can require a bit of boilerplate, and while there are libraries like Formik, Redux Form or React Redux Form can help make things easier, they can be overkill for many situations.
Frontend Development
Do it with Elegance: How to Create Data-Driven User Interfaces in Vue
Although we usually know what components are needed when building most views within an app, sometimes we don't know what they are until runtime. This means we need to build a screen based on the application state, user preferences, or response from an API. A common case is building dynamic forms, where the questions and components needed are either configured by a JSON object, or where fields change based on the users' answers.
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Are Your Unit Tests Failing for the Expected Reasons?
Unit tests can be an invaluable tool in the developers toolbox. You don't need to be a strict TDD purist to make unit testing worthwhile. Once you get into the flow of writing tests, it can be rather satisfying to watch the Nyan Cat Reporter go across your screen as the number of tests passing increase.
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Quick Start with Angular Modules
Angular 2 RC5 was released was released last week. Looking through the change log of bug fixes and new features shows a lot of progress has been made. However, I experienced a sinking feeling after reading several pages of Breaking Changes about the introduction of @NgModule and changing how we need to bootstrap our applications.
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