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In JavaScript, and some other languages, too, there is the concept of a "closure".

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I've been working on lessons for a new course recently, and one of the the lessons I created inspired me to share one of my favorite techniques for creating flexible functions: dependency injection and default parameters.

I'm writing this post because I've forgotten the following material enough times to warrant leaving myself a permanent resource for future reference.

Since the advent of React hooks, I have seen a pattern emerge that I think is less than ideal.

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I recently did a code review for an aspiring developer and instructed them to "get rid of the 'magic values' in their code."

The most common pattern I use when writing custom React hooks is to return a tuple of [state, handlers]. state is the value held by the hook, and handlers is an object with methods that update the state.

In college, I double majored in Philosophy and Mathematics.

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As a JavaScript developer, we don't have an official Tuple data type like we do Array or Object, but that doesn't mean we don't have tuples in our code.

You want to conditionally call a hook, but you can't do that because of rules.

This one will be short and to the point.

React Context has always been a somewhat controversial tool.

We live in exciting times (for JavaScript developers).

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This post will be short and sweet, yet it is my sincere hope that after reading this blog post, you will think about functions a little differently than you did before.

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I've been struggling a lot lately with my inner self-talk.

Today, I want to share with you a coding pattern I frequently use when writing conditional JavaScript.

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One thing I have found challenging about React.useEffect is the mental model regarding the dependencies array.

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Table of Contents Intro What is a State Machine?

I'm not sure when I first learned about "cyclomatic complexity".

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I want to teach you something that's taken me a few years to learn and a lot of trial and error.

At the time of this post, it has been roughly seven and a half months since I released an episode of Second Career Devs.

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Update: In the time since writing this post, I have removed the search feature for my blog.

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Some of you reading this know that I occasionally dust off the old microphone, fire up a text editor and make some educational material that I put on the interwebs.

Composition is the culmination of all the previous "Just Enough FP" blog posts.

Pointfree programming is a style of programming free of points.

In a previous post on currying, I used a filter function in a way that may have left you scratching your head.

I mentioned partial application several times in my previous post on currying with the promise of going in more detail about it in the future.

Currying is, by far, one of the coolest things I've learned in the last few years.