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I was recently doing a JavaScript code review and came across a chunk of classic imperative code (a big ol’ for loop) and thought, here’s an opportunity to improve the code by making it more declarative. While I was pleased with the result, I wasn’t 100% certain how much (or even if) the code was Read More …
Let’s Build a TouchTone Keypad! If you’ve built React/Redux applications before, you know there is a standard pattern of uni-directional data flow. The UI dispatches an action. A reducer handles the action, returning a new application state. The UI reorganizes itself accordingly. But what if you need a Redux action to trigger Read More …
Let’s build a non-trivial app with React and then refactor it to use Redux! Much of the advice you get regarding the addition of Redux to your React projects is to only do so once they reach a certain size, because of the extra complexity Redux adds. That’s certainly fair. But it will leave Read More …
A few years back, I was consulting for a client who had a Node-based instant messaging feature which had worked pretty well at first. But the number of users grew, and then it didn’t. Even though they had a number of load-balanced server instances running, they found that the Redis database they were using Read More …
Entities are the crown jewels of any application. All of those thousands of lines of client and server code have but one purpose: To persist, present, and allow the user to manipulate instances of domain model entities. Give your entities the respect they deserve. Once you’ve worked out what they are for your domain, building and Read More …