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Chak Shun Yu

Chak Shun Yu

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Lifelong learner working as a software engineer. React frontend developer, former Storybook maintainer, and technical writer about React, testing, and career.

How Does Shallow Comparison Work In React?

Apr 22, 20226 min read128 views

Shallow comparison as a concept is all over React development. It plays a key role in different processes and can also be found at several places in...

How Does Shallow Comparison Work In React?

React Readability Analysis Of Implementing Custom Hooks

Apr 22, 202213 min read98 views

The introduction of hooks in React 16.8 has totally changed the way we implement logic in our React components. React hooks provided us with an...

React Readability Analysis Of Implementing Custom Hooks

Why Pair Programming Should Be Part of Every Team Dynamic

Aug 28, 20219 min read137 views

Only when I started a new job earlier this year did I discover the concept of pair programming in an engineering team and since then I have become...

Why Pair Programming Should Be Part of Every Team Dynamic

How To Mock Only One Function From A Module In Jest

Aug 28, 20216 min read298 views

Mocking dependencies of your code is one of the fundamental aspects to software testing that allows developers to gain control over data flows and...

How To Mock Only One Function From A Module In Jest

How To Write Readable React Content States

Aug 21, 202111 min read158 views

Readable React: Content States · Content is crucial to any React web application. It is what makes our applications live up, interactive for users, and...

How To Write Readable React Content States

Think About Your Reviewers

Mar 20, 202110 min read26 views

A story, self reflection, and learning from an early stage in my engineering job about how I forgot about the most important audience: reviewers. · By...

Think About Your Reviewers