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Lessons from 20 years of building UIs people actually use — React, dataviz, and the browser platform.

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16 articles from 2020 · show all

September 2020

How React Query gives you almost everything you thought you needed GraphQL for

GraphQL solves every problem you've ever had talking to APIs on the frontend. Mention a switch to GraphQL to your team and they think it's a joke. Rewrite our entire app? oh you jokester. React Query is the perfect middle ground ❤️

August 2020

You though computer science has no place in webdev? Here's a fun coding challenge

In 2020's, what is "frontend"? 🤨

"He's a frontend guy, is this even a fair question to ask?" The head of engineering was worried about our systems design question …

Why react-hook-form is my new favorite form library

July 2020

Build a new design system in a couple afternoons

June 2020

Wormhole state management

Using scopes for elegant JAMStack permissions

May 2020

Screw web performance, just wait a little 😈

Add granular role-based access to your JAMStack app

April 2020

Why you should build a form generator

Lemme guess, every project involves 1 or 2 forms and they're all the friggen same. You got forms coming out the wazoo. Render fields. Connect to state. Add field validation. Detect submit. Add form validation. Send fetch request. Repeat.

How tests uncover hidden complexity in simple code

The surprising performance boost from changing gif embeds

March 2020

Configuring your JAMStack app for prod vs. dev

February 2020

Mocking and testing fetch requests with Jest

Connecting Gumroad to Auth0 for paywalled JAMStack apps

January 2020

How GraphQL blows REST out of the water

Let's have a look at hyow GraphQL makes queries so much easier and more pleasant than REST