Chris Achard

Chris Achard @chrisachard

About: I'm trying to teach everything I know at chrisachard.com Instructor at egghead.io Mostly, I use JS, React, Rails, and Node

Location:
USA
Joined:
Aug 14, 2019

Chris Achard
articles - 24 total

Learn redux-toolkit in 10 steps

This was originally posted as a tweet thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1338507383765684...

Learn More 190 6Dec 15 '20

Why We Buy Domain Names (and what to do about it)

This post was originally published on: https://make.dev/blog/why-we-buy-domain-names   You have an...

Learn More 105 10May 27 '20

Tips for Organizing React Projects

This was originally posted as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/12399935823978...

Learn More 398 11Mar 18 '20

How to Find Consulting Clients

This was originally posted on: https://chrisachard.com/how-to-find-consulting-clients If you're cons...

Learn More 147 5Nov 7 '19

Fear Driven Development

It's Halloween today in the US! Halloween is a day where kids can dress up as something scary and go...

Learn More 67 10Oct 31 '19

DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers

This was originally posted as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11888702569719...

Learn More 541 22Oct 29 '19

What is your favorite editor and why?

I used to use TextMate, but switched to Sublime Text when they stopped supporting TextMate 1 (many ye...

Learn More 41 45Oct 22 '19

Music to Listen to While Coding

This was originally published on: https://chrisachard.com/music-to-listen-to-while-coding Music is a...

Learn More 156 45Oct 15 '19

Intro to Regex for Web Developers

This was originally posted as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11815834991129...

Learn More 441 36Oct 8 '19

Redux Crash Course with Hooks 🎣

This was originally posted as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11790158494595...

Learn More 915 28Oct 2 '19

How I Tripled My Twitter Following in One Weekend by Teaching React

This was originally published here: https://chrisachard.com/triple-your-twitter-following No, it doe...

Learn More 100 13Sep 24 '19

How to Make the Most of a Tech Conference

This was originally posted on my blog: https://chrisachard.com/make-the-most-of-a-tech-conference It...

Learn More 63 8Sep 24 '19

🔥 Learn React in 10 Tweets (with hooks)

This was originally posted as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11750221117584...

Learn More 810 23Sep 20 '19

Map/Filter/Reduce Crash Course

This was originally posted as a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11737504914587...

Learn More 622 25Sep 17 '19

How to Quit Your Job and Start Freelancing as a Software Developer

This was originally published on my blog: https://chrisachard.com/how-to-quit-your-job-and-start-free...

Learn More 308 8Sep 12 '19

Confused by git? Here's a git crash course to fix that 🎉

This was originally posted as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11711242891285...

Learn More 1349 40Sep 10 '19

How to Write Your First Post on DEV

So you've been reading dev.to and you're ready to post. Great! Here's how to do that, and what to e...

Learn More 353 36Sep 5 '19

ES6 Mini Crash Course: How to Write Modern JavaScript

This was originally posted as a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11692236911227...

Learn More 872 24Sep 4 '19

React Hooks Mini Crash Course

This was originally posted as a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/11671322793339...

Learn More 483 10Aug 30 '19

Formatting Code for DEV Comments and Posts

Have you ever wondered how to get the nice code formatting in comments and posts on dev.to? Here's a...

Learn More 94 20Aug 28 '19

Can You Replace Redux with React Hooks?

This was originally published on chrisachard.com Hooks are gaining popularity as a way to add state...

Learn More 39 6Aug 26 '19

What's your developer origin story?

Today I was listening to episode 1 of the Ladybug podcast (which is great - you should definitely che...

Learn More 4 8Aug 22 '19

Rails 6 released - What does that mean for you?

This was originally posted on: chrisachard.com Rails 6 was released on August 15, 2019 with a blog p...

Learn More 82 10Aug 19 '19

Use React Hooks Correctly with These Two Rules

Hooks were introduced at React Conf 2018, and have been steadily gaining popularity as an easy way to...

Learn More 54 0Aug 14 '19