The introduction of Symbols in ES6 marked a significant milestone, offering developers a new primitive type to enhance code clarity, privacy, and interoperability. At their core, Symbols serve as unique, immutable identifiers, making them quite valuable for many use-cases. This article delves into the benefits of JavaScript Symbols, illustrating how they can be leveraged to provide implementations which are more… Continue Reading
At times one may be justified in the argument that cognitive (over)load is just an expected part of the overall developer experience. Fortunately, there are numerous steps we can take to minimize the general noise which tends to distract our intended focus. One particularly simple – yet effective – example is to remove unnecessary redundancy wherever possible. In doing so, we afford both our peers and ourselves a codebase… Continue Reading
When dealing with NPM Permissions, often times it can be tempting to resort to installing modules as root (sudo), especially when under tight time constraints; where troubleshooting such issues will only serve to delay your progress. Admittedly, I have been guilty of this more often than I care to admit. That said, being as I always have the Broken Windows… Continue Reading
When leveraging React Bootstrap, one important consideration missing from the documentation (or perhaps, simply not emphasized enough) relates to module access when using ES6 imports. Specifically, in the context of React Bootstrap’s “convenience components” <Component.SubComponent> (e.g. <Modal.Body>), such imports must be made explicit as they can not be resolved against their parent components during transformations of ES6 imports to CommonJS… Continue Reading
Like many developers, at times I find the need to convert raw HTML to JSX. It was only after I found myself needing to do this a bit more frequently that I considered writing a quick tool to automate the task. However, like most things, I knew there must be something out there which handles this already, and as I suspected, there… Continue Reading
When implementing Partial Application in ES6, implementations naturally become quite easier to reason about as default parameters, rest parameters and arrow functions can be leveraged to provide a much more comprehensive implementation. While on the surface this may appear insignificant, when compared to having relied almost exclusively on the arguments object and Array.prototype to provide the same functionality in ES5,… Continue Reading
