It’s a good idea to have exact version information accessible from within any app you’re building, and it’s easy to put it there with modern tools. Join me for a quick dive through the layers that exist between git and production in a conventional Dockerized React app. Why Show Version Information? There are a bunch […]

I had the pleasure this year of leading an effort to re-write a complex editor application for a manufacturing test environment. The project dealt with highly complex, structured documents, so we felt that Redux would be a great storage solution. During the effort, I was able to refine work I had previously done to provide […]

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.