Certain coding practices seem superfluous when you first encounter them, but sooner rather than later you get into a situation where you wish you had stuck with them. Wrapping third-party libraries instead of using them directly in your codebase is one of those practices...
I recently played around with the idea of using renderless provider components not only for data but for styles too. This pattern seems especially promising when it comes to building base components with style modifier props...
We use Dependency Injection to achieve loose coupling. But loose coupling and Dependency Injection can make it harder to understand how our code works. It can make it more challenging to determine where a particular dependency is coming from...
Again and yet again, we hear and read about the problems of CSS. And there are some pitfalls you can fall into, mostly because of the global nature of CSS. But I argue that we solved those problems now multiple times...
After trying to go all-in with utility classes a few times, I decided that, for me, this is not the right approach. But one thing irks me and makes me think twice if I'm not perhaps just being stubborn...
Recently I've finished reading the book Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I was fascinated by the concept of antifragility. He uses the term to describe systems that benefit from volatility and disorder. In this article, I would like to reflect on a few ideas I had about applying some of the concepts in the book to web development...
Recently I saw an interesting Tweet by Mark Dalgleish, about the idea of contextual defaults for React components. I was especially interested in this because I had to solve a similar problem only a few days before...
In this article, we will take a closer look at how we can run automated cross-browser acceptance tests in real browsers on LambdaTest using TestCafe as our test framework...
Recently I saw an interesting Tweet by Mark Dalgleish, about the idea of contextual defaults for React components. I was especially interested in this because I had to solve a similar problem only a few days before...
When talking about loose coupling and tight coupling, often, the impression arises that tight coupling is something we always have to avoid. But this is almost impossible. What's essential is that we use loose coupling when bridging the gap between layers of our application...