Posts Tagged - JavaScript

Introduction

JavaScript, like every language, is weird in it’s own ways. As I continue diving in, I am starting to realize the depths of the silliness.

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Introduction

Last week I wrote about using Cypress to test browser applications. I found a fun little hiccup with links that open new windows or tabs that needed some research and experimenting to get over. I hope my solution helps someone who might come across this in the future.

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Introduction

When I write code, I try to remember that everything is broken until proven otherwise. I’ve been shifting my learning to browser-based platforms that I am working on and with that shift, browser tests have started to be folded into that mindset.

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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• The Problem
• Rendering A Link
• Objects And Typing Issues
• Cheating
• Another Solution
• The Better Solution

Introduction

I’ve been taking more and more tickets with the new gig. This week I was tracking down some text to make some updates, and this was not as simple as I thought it might be, so I decided to take some notes and reflect on some stuff I learned.

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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Destructuring
• Destructuring Imports
• A Cleaner Way To Destructure Imports
• My Conclusions

Introduction

I’ve been diving deep into the JavaScript ecosystem via TypeScript. One thing I’m observing in the more established engineering culture I’m part of now is the idea of cleaner code using things like destructuring. I am still new to this type of stack, so I wanted to talk about it and understand how we can better organize code.

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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• TypeScript So Far
• Type Definitions In Functions
• Generics
• Union Types
• Conclusion

Introduction

I started a new job, and the stack is entirely different from what I know. Allow me a moment to break it down.

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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Data In React
• Context In React
• Context In Use
• Conclusion

Introduction

React offers the ability to build out web applications quickly. One of the details of this strategy includes passing data to different components in the DOM. This can consist of needed data to build features, states of a component, and anything you can think of.

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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Tailwind
• Setup
• Using Tailwind in React
• Something a Little More

Introduction

It’s been some time since I did any frontend development, and I don’t miss it. After a couple of years of learning the fundamentals, I would have loved to have some alternatives to manually writing CSS.

Now that I am diving back into it, I am happy there are tools not to replace but improve the CSS experience. In that spirit, I want to look at Tailwind CSS.

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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• SWR
• Conclusion

Introduction

React gives us the ability to create powerful and scalable apps. We need to quickly implement API calls to get our data displayed in our App for them to run. That’s where SWR comes in handy.

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