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  • React

useEffectButOnlyWhenISaySo()

by Ankush ThakurDecember 30, 2020 No comments

I wrote a very small demo involving useEffect() today. Actually, before that, I happened to be reading about useEffect() in some article and caught myself […]

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  • Frontend
  • React

React and refs — first steps

by Ankush ThakurDecember 26, 2020 No comments

Refs is one of those topics that sends even seasoned React devs into fits of panic. What is this mysterious thing called a “ref” that […]

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  • Opinion

Make StackOverflow great again!

by Ankush ThakurOctober 23, 2020 2 comments

People hate StackOverflow (SO) for various reasons. There’s the general hate that SO is a quick-and-dirty help forum that promotes copy-paste-driven development. Then there are […]

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  • Architecture
  • Django
  • Python

The Impossible Structuring Decisions

by Ankush ThakurOctober 8, 2020 No comments

How to structure your web app’s code base is a difficult problem, even more so when there are full stack frameworks involved. Take Django, for […]

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  • People

Are you a troller?

by Ankush ThakurAugust 16, 2020 No comments

Who is a troller? Who is right and who is wrong? These are interesting questions. Well, I don’t know about right and wrong, but recently […]

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  • Frontend
  • React

Redux vs. Context

by Ankush ThakurAugust 6, 2020August 6, 2020 No comments

In an earlier post I wrote, I remarked on how many developers in the React community feel that Redux is an overkill, an antipattern, and […]

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  • Frontend
  • React
  • UI

Red(ux)ing the complexity in application state

by Ankush ThakurJuly 15, 2020 No comments

When the last edition of the wonderful React newsletter landed in my mailbox, one of the links caught my eye: “Why I stopped using Redux”. […]

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