Lifelong learner working as a software engineer. React frontend developer, former Storybook maintainer, and technical writer about React, testing, and career.
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 the lifecycle of React components. Think of the mechanism to determine whether class components shoul...
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 entirely new way of encapsulating logic, sharing it between components, and keeping it separate from the v...
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 quite fond of it. I really like the interactions that it creates between team members and working toget...
Mocking dependencies of your code is one of the fundamental aspects to software testing that allows developers to gain control over data flows and behaviour of the code. As a JavaScript testing framework, Jest has an extensive collections of APIs tha...
Readable React: Content States
A story, self reflection, and learning from an early stage in my engineering job about how I forgot about the most important audience: reviewers.
At the time of writing, I've just finished more than one month at my first job as a beginning React software engineer. During this month, I started out with looking into bugs and addressing them to get myself familiar with the codebase. After shippin...
Why using the second argument of Redux's `connect` function will lead to better maintainability, quality, and testability of your React code.
