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·Mar 29, 2021

Effortless Index Files with VS Code

Why use index files? If you lean heavily into Javascript/Typescript in your day-to-day coding you’ll be well aware of the pain of dealing with imports. Keeping track of the deeply nested files where you’ve saved reusable variables/functions can be exhausting and confusing. …

Visual Studio Code

3 min read

Effortless Index Files with VS Code
Effortless Index Files with VS Code

Jun 28, 2020

Responsive Styled Components | Breakpoints Function

I recently discovered an incredibly useful feature in Styled Components that allows sharing blocks of CSS properties between components. Here’s a simple example where I create a variable called sharedProps that is passed into two different components, StyledThis and StyledThat. One thing that I have always found clunky in…

React

2 min read

Responsive Styled Components | Breakpoints Function
Responsive Styled Components | Breakpoints Function

Dec 31, 2018

AWS Amplify | Custom Authentication

AWS Amplify is a fantastic tool for quickly getting up and running with a full-fledged application. It has the amazing capability to incorporate features such as user Authentication. If you’re using React then you can use the withAuthenticator Higher-Order Component to handle your full-suite of Authentication. As useful as this…

React

3 min read

AWS Amplify | Custom Authentication
AWS Amplify | Custom Authentication

Dec 24, 2018

React & D3

For those of you unfamiliar with D3, it is a visualization library that is most likely behind any impressive web-based graphics you’ve seen on sites such as the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight or Flowing Data. It typically requires direct access to the DOM to make its magic happen. This, of…

React

3 min read

React & D3
React & D3

Dec 10, 2018

Rails | Active Admin

This week I’ve decided to step away from my usual venture into the world of Javascript and will delve into an incredibly useful Rails Gem called Active Admin. With just a few simple lines of code you can create an admin route that provides powerful insight into the models and…

Ruby

4 min read

Rails | Active Admin
Rails | Active Admin

Dec 3, 2018

Visual Studio Code | Custom User Snippets

This week’s blog is going to be short but sweet. I’m going to walk you through an invaluable feature of VS Code: the ability to create custom user snippets. This is really incredibly simple to do and it will greatly enhance your workflow. If you’re unfamiliar with VS Code it’s…

Java Script

4 min read

Visual Studio Code | Custom User Snippets
Visual Studio Code | Custom User Snippets

Nov 26, 2018

Test Driven Development | Assertions

In my previous post I began to chip away at the molehill of Type Driven Development. I’ll now step over that molehill and on to the mountain that is Test Driven Development. As explained in that post, Test Driven Development is focused around functionality of your code, i.e. when a…

Java Script

3 min read

Test Driven Development | Assertions
Test Driven Development | Assertions

Nov 18, 2018

Javascript | Type Driven Development

A major overhaul in the world of manufacturing was spawned with the birth of Six Sigma. A statistically-driven approach to Industrial Engineering that focuses heavily on reliability. Engineers realized that there are lots of external conditions that can affect the quality of your product. Components might wear down, machine upgrades…

Java Script

5 min read

Javascript | Type Driven Development
Javascript | Type Driven Development

Nov 12, 2018

Destructuring in Javascript

The two most common data structures in Javascript, as in most languages, are objects and arrays. Javascript ES6 provides a useful syntax for unpacking objects and arrays into variables with assigned values. I’ll dig into some of those useful patterns here. Let’s start off with arrays. The basic example shown…

Java Script

3 min read


Nov 5, 2018

Reach Router | React Routing made Easy

React Router is currently at version 4 of its release and is by leaps and bounds the most popular means to scaffolding dynamic routing within React applications. As shown below it has over 33,000 stars on Github, 442 contributors and over 4,000 commits. It’s incredibly active and has fantastic documentation…

React

4 min read

Reach Router | React Routing made Easy
Reach Router | React Routing made Easy
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