One of the best features of macOS is Time Machine. Time Machine automatically backs up your data, applications, and settings periodically whenever your Mac is plugged into power and connected to your external hard drive. …

You may have come across a number of articles by now proclaiming “Redux is made obsolete by React context.” The reality is, react-redux uses and has always used the React context API in its various forms since it debuted. …

Let’s learn how to use React 16.8’s hooks API to create a clean, compositional UI component. This article assumes you’re familiar with hooks, context, and component composition already, and you’re looking for elegant solutions to implement them. I’ll begin with our desired end result: a “tabs” component that keeps track…

This is a continuously evolving curation of my favorite technologies for creating modern React front-end applications. There are hundreds of tools, libraries, and frameworks available; this is my attempt to consolidate some of my favorites to develop with. yarn yarn is a package manager for JavaScript modules, a derivative of npm. Why not npm? …

You’re building a React/Redux app. You’re doing your best to apply the best principles — separate containers, simple props passed down to your components. Then you run into a roadblock. Sooner or later, you’re going to be testing a component which renders a deeply nested tree of components. …

It’s not uncommon for JavaScript applications to have modules which depend on other modules. And when it comes time to test these modules, it can be difficult to write isolated unit tests, so we often compensate with integration tests and mocking. Integration tests not only test the module; they must…

You’re in charge of designing and developing the component library at your company. You may extend a popular open source package like Bootstrap or Material Design, or maybe you’re starting from scratch. You design your components to be flexible, and you’re happy with the configurability. You export buttons, panels, modals…

If you’ve built an app using React and Redux, you’ve probably heard of the concept of separating presentational components and container components, or smart components and dumb components, or similar terminology. If you haven’t, you might want to read this excellent summary about them by the legendary Dan Abramov. One…

Here are some things I’ve learned using ES2017 async/await functions that I haven’t seen documented elsewhere yet. If you’re looking to leverage these new function declarations, here are some features you might want to know about. They work with any “then-ables” If you’ve been working in the JavaScript world, and especially in Node, you might…