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Why you've struggled with testing

October 8, 2018

Some common struggles people have with testing, and things you can do to improve. The argument is long ended: You should be testing your mission-critical...

Demystifying Testing

October 4, 2018

How to get from aimlessly testing or not testing at all to really understanding how and what to test. In the next few weeks, you’re going to get bonus emails...

Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools

October 1, 2018

How you can use a few simple static code analysis tools to avoid common programming bugs. You’ve probably heard of ESLint, Prettier, and Flow/TypeScript....

Confidently Shipping Code

September 24, 2018

Why I care about testing Have you read the book "Start With Why"? If you haven't, I recommend it. At least watch the TED talk. The premise of the idea is...

React/JSX as a server-side templating language

September 17, 2018

Using React function components to render your website's skeleton index.html NOTE: I've been teasing about something big that I have coming. I'm totally not...

How I am so productive

September 10, 2018

People regularly ask me how I get so much done. Here's my secret... I get asked about this at least twice a week, so I thought I'd save myself some time by...

Getting Noticed and Widening Your Reach

September 4, 2018

Some things you can do to gain a wider audience and get your stuff noticed This last week I had three people complaining to me (in individual interactions)...

Make Impossible States Impossible

August 28, 2018

A simple trick to simplify your application and component state This is a phrase I first heard from David Khourshid in his talk at React Rally 2017...

How to make the most out of conferences

August 20, 2018

Some specific things you can do as a conference attendee I spent the last week at React Rally in Salt Lake City. It was an awesome experience. It's easily my...

Why and How I started public speaking

August 13, 2018

Some stories and some advice from an international speaker and trainer When I was still in school in the Information Systems program at BYU, I discovered and...

mdx-deck: slide decks powered by markdown and react

Why it's awesome, what it is, how it works, and how to use mdx-deck. Before we get started today, I want you to know that if you're going to React Rally or...

unpkg: An open source CDN for npm

Let's learn how unpkg the service and the open source project can improve performance for your company's apps. FYI: Before I get into the newsletter today I...

Polyfill as needed with polyfill-service

How to maximize the performance of loading polyfills for your application users. In last week's newsletter "What is a polyfill", I talked about a situation I...

What is a polyfill

A few weeks back I found a bug with IE where all the user saw was a blank white page. If you've been around for a while in the wonderful world of the client-...

Why I Never Use Shallow Rendering

Tests should help me be confident that my application is working and there are better ways to do that than shallow rendering. Before we get into today's...

When to break up a component into multiple components

At what point does it make sense to break a single component into multiple components? Advanced React Component Patterns Course in Portland next week! Hey...

You may use it every day, but have you seen what happens after Babel transpiles it? I think a critical part of understanding how to use React effectively is...

Test Isolation with React

Why your tests should be completely isolated from one another and how to do that. Read to the end, I've got some cool things in the "things not to miss"...

JavaScript default parameters

Today I thought I'd take you through one of the examples from my es6 workshop. Consider the following code: function getCandy(kind, size, upperKind,...

Dealing with FOMO

What is "Fear Of Missing Out" and how to deal with this natural unhealthy tendency. 🚨 Announcements 🚨 Advanced React Online and Live! Join me in my online...

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