Thomas Rigby articles - 25 total
Using Zustand to manage application state in React
One of the downsides to Controller/Reducer-based state management is that a single piece of state...
Quick and dirty server 2
I wrote last year about spinning up a quick and dirty server using Python. Since then, I have...
Trim trailing slash
Sometimes a URL has a trailing slash, sometimes it doesn't. If we can't be certain, we need to...
How to create a global .gitignore file
Unfortunately, this has happened to the best of us at some point, amirite?! Inspired by this...
WordPress forgotten password localhost hack
I have lost count of the number of times I've forgotten the password to the local or development...
Semantic HTML
Semantic HTML is the process of using HTML5 tags to reinforce the meaning of the information...
I am a lazy developer or How to write 438 lines of nginx redirects
When I say "I am a lazy developer", I don't mean to imply that I cut corners and churn out shoddy...
You have a better laptop than your users
I have a fairly decent laptop provided by my employer and I'm lucky enough to have a strong, reliable...
Generate a random alphanumeric string using JavaScript
Today I had to send an "ID" in the body of my POST request. It turns out that the API doesn't care...
Wait!
Why the rush…?! Whether you're faking an API response, introducing deliberate cognitive drain, or...
Quick and dirty carousel
One thing I find myself looking up time and time again, is; How do I move the first item of an...
Increase WordPress uploads limit in Docker
I've recently moved over to using Docker to manage my WordPress builds. It has many advantages and,...
Quick and dirty server
I often find myself working on proof of concepts that consist of (at most) an index.html, style.css,...
Numberize a value
If you get a CSS value but you want to do maths with it, what do you do? const width =...
Inclusive Design is more important than Accessibility
We tend to think of accessibility as being something we add to websites to help the disabled. This is a mindset we need to get out of.
Using Slots in React
Having multiple almost identical components is just very bad and wrong - let's fix it properly!
Human-readable Numbers
Convert a JavaScript number to a human-readable number the easy way
Write Jira-flavoured Markdown the easy way!
Jira markdown is different, use this extension to convert your vanilla markdown to Jira-flavoured
Pre- and Post- NPM Scripts
I've been working on a project at work recently that takes data from a CMS, builds into a React app,...
Alternatives to `master`
In an effort to remove unnecessary references to slavery and replace them with more inclusive terms, many companies are opting to replace the term `master` as their main git branch name.
The semantics of interaction vs navigation
It is commonplace for designers to style both links and buttons to look like “buttons”. But just because something looks like a button, doesn’t mean it is a `<button>`.
Crafting the ideal line length
How to achieve the ideal line length using css
Warning: Each child in a list should have a unique "key" prop
To prevent ugly errors in your console when you loop through an array, React likes you to use a...
Git-less development
Too much of the DX (developer experience) is negatively impacted by a dependency on build tools and deployment pipelines.
Gutenberg Components: "I only need one"
Gutenberg comes with an awful lot of default components most of which will never be used in our websites. Here's how to disable the ones you won't use.