A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Nice post comparing these three approaches and detailing why you should use the version with hooks. // #1 – Hooks const MyComponent = () => { const mousePosition = useMouse(); // mousePosition.x, mousePosition.y } // #2 – Render Props const MyComponent = () => { return ( <Mouse> {({ x, y }) => { // …
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Recently I was invited as a speaker to Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL. At both events I brought a new talk called “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run”. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by Google that automatically scales stateless containers. By abstracting away all infrastructure management, us developers can focus on what …
useDeepCompareEffect Hook: A useEffect using deep comparison
A custom Hook by Kent C. Dodds (who else?) that might come in handy for “those situations”: React’s built-in useEffect hook has a second argument called the “dependencies array” and it allows you to optimize when React will call your effect callback. React will do a comparison between each of the values (via Object.is) to …
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Chris Coyier wants to create a Card Component in React. But then he suddenly finds himself down the rabbit hole: how flexible does he make it? What is configurable and what is not? Where to draw the line? It sounds very familiar, as I’m always pondering over things like this when writing libraries/reusable things in …
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Apart from the quite well known prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion features, the Media Query Level 5 spec comes with a few more new ones. The Media Query Level 5 spec is being drafted as we speak, and it includes some really nice ones. Some of them are still being figured out, but several of them are …
I like this review of the Mac Pro by The Verge. Very nuanced, something you don’t come by often these days. In short: It’s a hell of a machine which costs a ton. Adobe’s software is not taking advantage of all of the machine’s power. The XDR Display might or might not work for you. …
Late January Puppeteer 2.1.0 got released, with native support for Firefox: The launcher now has an option to run Puppeteer with different browsers, starting with Firefox. Puppeteer can now talk to a real, unpatched Firefox binary. This is a first step towards eventually deprecating the separate puppeteer-firefox package in favor of supporting Firefox directly in …
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Intl.DisplayNames
An ECMAScript Internationalization API Feature that currently is in Stage-3 and that has already landed in V8 version 8.1 is Intl.DisplayNames. It’s a way to get localized display names for languages, scripts, regions and others. The idea is that you as a developer should not build your own list of localized strings for languages, regions, …
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A common misconception about React is that you need to set up an entire toolchain to get started with it. While that might have been true in the past, that certainly isn’t the case today. From the React Docs: The majority of websites aren’t, and don’t need to be, single-page apps. With a few lines …
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