Front End

A promises gotcha that will catch you out

Towards a Gatsby+Suspense proof-of-concept

Experimenting with the new React Concurrent mode

Is hot dog taco?

What if I told you modern tools let you build and launch a small webapp in 30 minutes? Complete with SSL, a .com domain, a database, a documented API, CDN hosting, fast static initial loads, and a hydrated SPA? That's the challenge I posed at Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend. The audience didn't believe me, so it was time to perform some magic. 🧙

useReducer + useContext for easy global state without libraries

useAuth – the simplest way to add authentication to your React app

The unreasonable difficulty of adding a feature to a Textarea

How to drive React state with D3 transitions for complex animation

A Drilldown Piechart with React and D3

TypeScript's biggest flaw and how you can use ducks to fix it

Is JavaScript really getting too complex?

Getting the CSS out of rendered React components

Svelte takes the best of React and the best of Vue to make something awesome

Custom markdown extensions with Remark and HAST handlers

Trying the new ResizeObserver and IntersectionObserver APIs

BrowserStack – a less painful way to test weird browsers

Fixing laggy UI with React.memo

useDimensions – a React Hook to measure DOM nodes

Why dataviz does better for your career than TODOapps

Behind the curve ... of my bar donut chart 🤨

JavaScript’s most popular dataviz library

An experiment to merge React and Vue

Custom react hooks ❤️

Async, await, catch – error handling that won't drive you crazy

Why CSS-in-JS is winning, an example

Tooltips and state across various d3 charts in a React dashboard!

How to set up Gatsby and Auth0 for easy authentication on your next project

Delightful state management with hooks and Constate

How to build a Remark plugin to supercharge your static site

DRY is a footgun, remember to YAGNI