Non-Traditional Dev: Unconventional Web Development Insights

There’s a moment in every design system’s life when the small compromises add up—one more alias, one more “temporary” prop, one more legacy fallback.

The ResizeObserver API is a relatively new feature in JavaScript that allows developers to detect changes in the size of an element on a web page.

A few years ago, I started what ended up becoming the Bedrock Layout Primitive library.

In a perfect world, every function and every API we work with would have one clear type that always gets returned.

In the 2021 state of JS survey result, solid.js, in its debut appearance, surprised many by jumping straight to the top of the satisfaction score.

In previous posts, we have worked through some of the code examples of the book Functional JavaScript.

Array methods can be grouped into two categories: mutating and non-mutating methods.

Since the beginning of the year, I have been working on my personalized CS degree.

I don't have a CS degree.

After three posts on the subject, I decided to officially make this a new series called Modernizing JavaScript Code..

Are you looking to modernize your JavaScript code?

Are you looking for a fast and efficient way to create layouts for your React apps?

Photo by Anthony Duran on Unsplash The React Docs are great and getting better, but I have always felt it lacked a basic explanation of how to fetch data.

Photo by Linus Nylund on Unsplash JavaScript is an interesting language.

Photo by Suzanne D.

Photo by John Moeses Bauan on Unsplash My last post on modernizing splat and unsplat were so much fun I thought I would do it again with the following code example in the book, Functional JavaScript, that I decided to do it again.

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash One of my favorite books for JavaScript is “Functional JavaScript” by Michael Fogus.

Photo by "My Life Through A Lens" on Unsplash When trying to break in as a web developer, one of the things that helped me get started was the local meetup.

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Looking back at how my career has shaped, I can point to one moment where I feel it took off.

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Naming things in programming is very difficult.