A couple of days ago, I saw a post on Hacker News about some announcements from Moment.js. If you’ve done web development with JavaScript, there’s a good chance you’ve used Moment.js. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a library that makes it…
JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world and has been for years. How did this happen? The World Wide Web + JavaScript, Together Always (almost)In 1993 a team led by Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois released the Mosaic web browser. It was the first browser…
Debugging is just the process of creating hypotheses about what is causing a bug and then testing those hypotheses. One of the biggest differences between junior and senior developers is that senior developers are much better debuggers. They have a better sense of where a bug may be coming from…
For probably my first year writing code, I used Git like I take a multivitamin: I was told I should do it, but I didn’t really understand how it works and I only vaguely understood the benefits. Unsurprisingly, I made a ton of Git mistakes. Running ‘git rebase’ was…
This post is one in a series in which we take React code that a less-experienced developer would write and improve it so that it resembles more what a professional would write. In the first part of the series, we converted a class component to a function component. Today we're…
It is relatively easy to start writing Javascript code, but it is hard to write it well. If you are a junior developer who wants to level up your JS skills, it is essential to understand subtle differences and choose the right approach for a task. In this article, I’…
This post is one in a series in which we take React code that a less-experienced developer would write and improve it so that it resembles more what a professional would write. Today we’re covering transitioning from class to function components. The junior code(If you've already read the…
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