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What Is Legacy Code? All Code Is Legacy Code!
September 22, 2023
Software developers are superstitious out of necessity. Given the task of keeping a software system functioning properly without the ability to reason about or memorize its entire operation,...
Battle of the Node.js ORMs: Objection vs. Prisma vs. Sequelize
July 22, 2022
You know them, you love them, but when you have 3,524 packages with the tag ORM available at NPM, deciding on one ORM may be a little bit overwhelming. Comparing three of the most-used ORMs will help...
When Should You Build Your Own Angular Design System?
April 21, 2022
When should you start thinking about building a design system? Wade:
A Simple Asynchronous Alternative to React's useReducer
July 27, 2021
Even though React's useReducer has gained a lot of popularity during the last couple of years, it can be difficult to use for some common cases. Specifically, it requires a lot of boilerplate to...
Understand Declarative vs. Imperative Code using Array Functions
May 25, 2021
Declarative code: it’s a hot term in all types of programming. But what does it really mean? More importantly, how do you make the jump from understanding the concept to actually writing declarative...
RxJS with React: Actions and Subjects (Part 2)
February 22, 2021
Part 2 of this series, focusing on Actions and Subjects, is available on Dev.to.
Angular Upgrades: Painless Migration from TSLint to ESLint
February 5, 2021
Linting: the spell check of code. Once you have it, you can’t imagine how you ever lived without it. Useful for solo developers and large teams, linting keeps your code consistent and prevents bugs...
Using Declarative Infrastructure to Deploy an EKS Cluster and Helm Chart
February 1, 2021
We're going to create an operations repo that creates and manages an AWS EKS cluster using Terraform and deploys a Helm chart to the cluster. We'll use BitOps to orchestrate this whole process.
Building an Image Gallery with NgRx
January 29, 2021
Welcome to part two of my blog on NgRx! In Part One we solved common Angular state management problems using NgRx. In Part Two we’re getting hands-on by building stateful animated GIF gallery using...
Solving State Management Problems with NgRx
January 21, 2021
Building complex web applications is hard. Building complex web applications that you can still understand once you’ve built them is even harder.
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
Free Web App Checklist
We use a set of checklists to keep us on track and ensure reproducible quality on every project.
