I’ve worked with a few teams who found React’s Contexts somewhat difficult to understand at first. This started me thinking about how best to explain them. What I realized is that Contexts are essentially nothing more than dynamic scope. What’s Dynamic Scope? As a programmer, you’re most likely very comfortable with lexical scoping, even if […]

Create React App is the easiest and most available way to get into React. And ejecting your app is seen as the gateway to being a “Real React Developer.” I’m not normally for gatekeeping, but ejecting is worth avoiding. Today, I’m going to try and convince you to take your hand off the eject button. […]

Yesterday, I talked about getting started with adding restorable randomness to a Redux app. Today I’ll cover using the PRNG in “fat” reducers to isolate the presence of rngState from the majority of the code.

This is the first post in a series about adding restorable randomness to a Redux app. In it, we will cover what I mean by restorable randomness, why you might want it, and some code to generate restorable random values.

Recently, I used Apollo Client local cache on a project. Like most features of Apollo Client, it’s powerful but complicated. For my project, I wanted to save a blob of data that represents the current state of a page. This blob would allow a user to navigate away from a page and come back later […]

In server-side rendering (SSR), the client and server don’t always communicate perfectly. Recently, we faced a bit of a challenge configuring our app to display adaptive React components smoothly.