Making custom react hooks is easy, but the first time I made one I was at a loss at to how to test it. It turns out it’s pretty easy… If your custom hook uses any other React hooks, then…
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Identifying and Combatting Technical Debt
Technical debt is something you should always be conscious of in the software industry. Basically it is the result of doing a rushed or “unclean” job and leaving code or infrastructure in a state that makes it harder and slower…
Posted in Programming
Making setTimeout an async/await function
Here is a handy wrapper that turns setTimeout() into an async function.
NodeJS 8.5 adds fast native copyFile
NodeJS is awesome, but every now and then you come across something that isn’t really easy. One of those things is copying a file. Seems simple, but a glance at StackOverflow proves otherwise. The answers basically consist of reading a…
Why I’m Sticking With Yarn (Sorry NPM 5)
This post has been a long time coming. I started trying out NPM 5 the day it was released (May 2017), but wanted to reserve judgement until it had some time to “stabilize” and get some initial bugs fixed. As…
Posted in JavaScript, Programming
Pretty-printing JavaScript objects with JSON.stringify
It’s fairly frequent that we end up wanting to log what the contents of a JS variable is. Often times though, that ends up being an object. Frequently this leads to something like this: This of course prints: The interpolation…
Posted in JavaScript, Programming
ES6 / JS2015 : Rest and Spread operators
The Rest and Spread operators added in ES6 / JS2015 drastically improve the ability to deal with unknown numbers of function parameters, and array and hash manipulation.
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