Brian Vanderwal on Atomic Spin

A Pattern for State Management in React Function Components

How to make a React component independent, notify its parent when its the state changes, and enable the parent to pass down new state at any time.

.NET / WPF

How to Access Session Data within a Hot Chocolate Resolver

Although Hot Chocolate has its own sort of dependency injection, none of these patterns apply when you need to access the HttpContext in a resolver.

.NET / WPF

How to Call an Async Method Synchronously in C#

It would be awesome if async/await reduced code complexity instead of just hiding it. But when complexity is unavoidable, we have to make it manageable.

Development Practices

Don’t Repeat Yourself, but Sometimes Repeat Yourself

Repetition in itself is not the enemy that the DRY principle makes it out to be. Removing false duplication can create more problems than it solves.

Functional Programming

Thinking Declaratively in an Imperative World

How can you take advantage of functional programming if you're not using a strictly functional language or toolset? Think declaratively, not imperatively.

Web Apps

Add F# to Your Web App with Fable

With Fable, you can add F# code to your new or existing web application. Fable compiles to JavaScript, so it runs directly in the browser.

Web Apps

Taking Advantage of the (Few) Good Parts of CSS

Utilizing only the good parts of CSS feels like I'm throwing out 90% of it. But if it means I can spend less time debugging, I'll do it gladly.

Web Apps

JavaScript-free Web Development with WebAssembly, Bolero, and F#

WebAssembly and frameworks like Bolero promise to open the Web to languages beyond JavaScript. Bolero enables F# development from front to back.

Developer Tools

Four Ways to Keep Junk Out of Git

Source control is great, but you don’t want it to keep track of everything. Passwords, temporary changes, and desperate debugging edits are best kept out.

Development Practices

What Does Validation Actually Mean?

The term "validation" is often used as a catch-all for several activities – 4 things that are really just different components of validation.

Development Practices

Commit Messages – the Easiest Documentation You’ll Ever Write

Historical context for a codebase gets lost over time, and documentation gets outdated. Solve both problems by writing bits of documentation as you go.

Development Practices

A Case Against Dependencies

It can be very tempting to pull in a 3rd-party package to add functionality to your app. But there are hidden costs you should weigh first.

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