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Category: decisions you will live with

  • hooked

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    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…

  • getting to know redux

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    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…

  • I just wanted to do one little thing

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    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,…

  • learning to love limitation

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    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.…