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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Redux vs. Context
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 […]
Continue readingRed(ux)ing the complexity in application state
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”. […]
Continue readingStyling input elements in CSS – the slippery `select`
Even at 5+ years of fullstack development, I find CSS to be my Achilles’ heel. Recently, I ran into the need to alter how basic […]
Continue readingBad naming strikes back – Frontend Masters
Bad naming is everywhere. It’s not only when writing code that we have to think of think of “decoupling” and stuff like that. It’s every […]
Continue readingAdding a splash screen in React Native shouldn’t be hard
So, I’m learning React Native these days. Why? Firstly, it’s React-driven, which I quite like on the web front (why not Vue or something else? […]
Continue readingBad, react-native CLI, bad!
Bad UX is everywhere. Perhaps more so in dev tooling. Take React Native for example. It’s 2020 and I finally decided to adopt React for […]
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