React
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February 2021
A TypeScript trick for reusable hooks
Reusable hooks are all fun and games until TypeScript starts yelling at you about incompatible types.
November 2020
SSR, SSRwR, SSG, CSR, WTFBBQ???
These abbreviations are getting out of hand. It's like a bad interviewer's wet dream.
October 2020
Refactoring a useReducer to XState, pt1 โ CodeWithSwiz 11
XState promises to be like useReducer+Context combined and the simplest way to handle complex state in React apps. But can it deliver? On this episode of #CodeWithSwiz, we gave it a shot.
September 2020
Why NextJS /api routes are fab โ CodeWithSwiz 6
In this episode of CodeWithSwiz, we tried NextJS's support for /api routes โ code running on the backend. In a word โ Wow
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 โค๏ธ
August 2020
Lessons from migrating a 14 year old blog with 1500 posts to Gatsby
After 4 years of putting it off, 1 year of tinkering, a month of work, and $1500 of hired help, my new blog is finally here ๐ Here's what I learned.
June 2020
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.