Hey guys! I wrote an article over on dev.to taking a brief look at what immutability is, and some reasons why devs might make a bug fuss over it. Check it out here: What's the big deal about immutability? If you're like me, you've heard a lot of people say things like "you shouldn't mutate state!" and talk a lot about…dev.to

I wrote a post about some tools I’ve found useful when testing my Node.js apps and libraries. Go check it out over at dev.to. And if you have an account there, you should probably follow me.😀

Writing better addresses for the Web — Let’s talk about something we see everywhere on the web: URLs. URLs are addresses A URL is an address to a property on the web. Just like a physical address, it points to one location. People share addresses to help one another locate things. The same thing happens with URLs. You’ve probably copied…

Redux is a great tool for managing state in complex frontend apps. Is it possible to extend this to the server? — Why would I need Redux? Redux bills itself on its landing page as “a predictable state container for JavaScript apps”. Redux is commonly described as a state management tool, and while it’s mostly used with React, it can be used anywhere JavaScript is used. We’ve said Redux is for managing state. But what is this…

When you’ve got to go it alone, how do you make the most out of it? Most developers work as part of a team. However, at some point in our careers, we’ve had to (or we’ll have to) work alone. …

Improve your app performance by leveraging these two techniques — Throttling and debouncing are two widely-used techniques to improve the performance of code that gets executed repeatedly within a period of time. In this post, we’ll learn how to better use them in order to boost our app’s performance and write better and faster code in JavaScript! What are they? To throttle a…

An audit trail is a record of all changes made to a data model. A model is any entity that can be stored in a database, such as a user or a product. An audit entry typically contains information about the type of change (creation, update, or deletion), who made…

In software, a dependency occurs when one module in an application, A, depends on another module or environment, B. A hidden dependency happens when A depends on B in a way that’s not obvious. To discover a hidden dependency, you usually have to dig into the source code of the…

If you use Twitter, you’ve probably noticed a nifty little feature that’s been around for a while: real-time tweet statistics. This basically means that you get to see the number of Likes or Retweets of a tweet increase (or decrease) as people around the world like or retweet it, without…