Author: deletia
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Yes, We Still Use TFS
My employer uses Microsofty technologies in its backbone. We have a large, entertwined codebase that loads 150+ projects at once, and yes, we still use TFS, not git. We mark some items for manual merge due to the quirks of our processes, using Visual Studio slns, and Reasons, okay for reasons. The problem? No, the…
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hooked
React introduced hooks earlier this year. For the most part, I like them. They make code more readable, if sometimes a little cluttered, especially if you useState for single vars. And they looked like a the perfect solution for a setup I was working on: logic that used state in a containing component (the definition…
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ready to fetch?
Users double-click accidentally, ride the keyboard… one of the most elementary things you can do is throttle server requests for a specific call. Here’s my initial recipe. As a note, while my redux store is still fairly boilerplate heavy, I use redux-starter-kit to improve readability and lessen the pain of getting going. First, a little…
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getting to know redux
So we’ve got this big project at work. I’m trucking along la la la. And it becomes obvious — parts of our application will need a global state. A gal can only lift local state so far. We knew this. We knew that we’d probably go to reduxjs. So I sat down to do the…
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I just wanted to do one little thing
My current project is a company site revamp. Some parts of our site would simply be the old ASP.Net WebForms, tidied up and reskinned. Some will be more modern — using a React framework and microservices. This is terribly fun, but not 100% greenfield work. We need to stay compatible with the old site, and,…
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learning to love limitation
Historically, my current workplace hasn’t enforced coding or style standards. In case you wondered how useful my (cough) 25 year-old undergraduate literature degree is: once upon a time, after receiving a bluebook from doctor connolly, I would receive a sheet of paper with a passage or a poem written by an author studied that term.…