JavaScript Ramblings

Thoughts on JavaScript and React.

Authentication with Nodejs and JWTs - a simple example

January 26, 2022

How to check if your component rerendered - and why!

October 11, 2021

Should you switch to useReducer or is useState enough for your needs?

September 13, 2021

Should you deep clone nested properties?

August 07, 2021

How to use useState hook in React with Typescript

July 31, 2021

React not batching your setState updates? Here's what you can do about it

July 31, 2021

Are you logging the state immediately after updating it? Here's why that doesn't work

July 31, 2021

Using yarn symlinks to share code between apps

January 24, 2021

Continuously deploy a React App to GitLab Pages

January 17, 2021

Three ways to reuse commands across Gitlab jobs

October 14, 2020

Strategies for migrating from GitHub to GitLab

April 05, 2020

Using multiline strings in GitLab YML file

March 29, 2020

Keep authors when importing from GitHub to GitLab

March 13, 2020

Sync mirrored GitLab repository automatically on every push to GitHub

March 12, 2020

Do "dependencies" and "devDependencies" matter when using Webpack?

March 12, 2020

How to upgrade a yarn package to the latest version

March 09, 2020

What options do you have for deploying a frontend-only React app to production?

May 12, 2018

Measuring the performance of your frontend application

March 04, 2018

How to use Semantic UI with a custom theme in your CRA app

March 04, 2018

Troubleshooting 'could not find store in either the context or props'

February 10, 2018

How to use media queries with styled components

February 04, 2018

Updating create-react-app

January 27, 2018

Creating a Twitter-like search component in React

January 27, 2018

Stuck testing your connected component? Make sure you export your 'plain' component as well!

January 21, 2018

3 ways to test mapStateToProps and mapDispatchToProps

January 15, 2018

Server-side rendered styled-components with Nextjs

November 27, 2017

Easy theming with CSS in JS

November 06, 2017

React theming with emotion

November 05, 2017

React theming with styled components

November 05, 2017

React theming with glamorous

November 05, 2017

Migrating to styled-components cheatsheet

October 29, 2017

Should you use CSS in JS?

October 25, 2017

Things to consider when choosing a React styling framework

October 17, 2017

Understand the React styling paradigms

September 22, 2017

3 talks you should watch on styling React components

August 12, 2017

Two ways to know if you should use a framework or stick to jQuery for now

March 25, 2017

Use ES6 modules in the browser today with SystemJS

November 09, 2016

Are your Chrome Timeline Recordings inconsistent?

September 28, 2016

Big list of resources on Javascript memory

September 21, 2016

How do you encourage your team to write more unit tests?

September 01, 2016

How to fill a MustacheJS template at compile-time and inject it into a webpage

July 31, 2016

React file template in WebStorm

July 24, 2016

Is it possible to do hot reloading when using Gulp and Browsersync?

July 16, 2016

Use Grunt to remove console.logs from your code

June 26, 2016

Automate preparing your files for production using Grunt

June 26, 2016

How to change object values without assigning it to another object

June 11, 2016

What does this "for .. in" expression do

June 11, 2016