Jacob Evans articles - 39 total
Mentorship To Me
I want to start off by saying, I think traditional mentorship has its place and usefulness, but full...
Mathematical Magic with JS Sets: Demystifying
If you’re as enamored with the elegance of mathematics as you are with clean, efficient code, you’re...
Clerk in 2023: A Year in Review
This was a exciting year for Clerk, packed with new features and a growing community around Clerk’s...
Updated Pricing: 10,000 MAUs Free, and a new “Pro Plan”
We’re thrilled to introduce a simplified pricing structure that’s not only easier to understand, but...
Next.js Authentication with Clerk: Streamlined SSR Handling
In the ever-evolving world of web development, streamlining tasks is paramount. Clerk, the versatile...
Exploring Clerk Metadata with Stripe Webhooks
Introduction to User Metadata By putting Clerk’s user metadata types to work, developers...
I'm Back! Burnout Sucks.
Why I Took a Break and Why I'm Back! I stopped writing blogs, and shorts (like this one),...
How I am bringing OSS contributing to Twitch, taking everyone with me and more...
Origin Story A little over a year ago I started a community (OSRG) that I wanted to build...
Fresh New Profile Pic
Figured it was about time to change a profile pic I had been using for 4 years. I have changed it...
Git Graft: A NPX Tool & Git Hook in TypeScript & Node
Introduction I decided I was tired of a GitFlow process. Every time I had to write a commi...
Labeled Breakout & GOTO
So I saw a post on Twitter, talking about labeled breaks... Which led to people fervently recommendin...
Digital Garden
I eventually plan on building my personal website or portfolio... whatever you want to call it. I hav...
Answer: How can I clear a Codemirror editor field from Cypress
I was able to with a little help from another answer in the responses to come up with a...
The Codewars’ Climb to 4kyu
The Advice: Editor: The code challenge sites all have their code editors, they all have s...
Gamification and Crowdsourcing
originally I wrote this for Journalism class in college. I liked it enough to put it on Medi...
Twitter Retweet Bot
Original a post I wrote on Medium, moved over to Dev.to The pains and learning from using...
I Made A NPM Card... It Was Fun
So I found out that you can make these cards and publish them to NPM and from there use NPX npx @ja...
XState Series: Temperature Converter
TL;DR If you just want the code/project to run locally -- https://github.com/JacobMGEvans/finite-stat...
XState Series: Introduction
So I am going to start tracking my learning and attempts at implementing XState and the finite state...
My Hacktoberfest 2019 Experience - First Times, Tons of Learning, Stress, Self-Doubt and at the end of it all...SWAG!
Let's discuss the experiences. I plan on wiring out the article more but I want to hear from other pe...
Why read Kent C. Dodds articles or newsletter
TL;DR Short answer yes, blogsite https://kentcdodds.com/blog/write-fewer-longer-tests This blog inco...
DOM Explained (somewhat 😆) & Modifying it With Vanilla JavaScript
tl;dr I made this article with HTML and use it to explain DOM, window, document and how to...
Language Flaws - Let's talk about them
I hear a lot about the flaws of JavaScript and why people don't like it or think the language (JavaSc...
Recursion - what, why & how
tl;dr Recursion has real-world benefits, not just to impress interviewers with recursive fizz-buzz or...
Await, Promises & Promise Methods
tl;dr finished up talking about await and execution blocking. Went over why Promise is still valuabl...
Async & Overview async/await
tl;dr async/await is a great way to deal with asynchronous behavior, once you get the hang of the syn...
Fetch -- HTTP requests
HTTP Requests Overview HTTP HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is...
A Few Useful Objects Methods, built-ins Part 1
Twitter: @jacobmgevans I wrote out some examples of Object methods being used, to get certain data f...
JavaScript Useful Array Methods! Part 1
Examples & Scenerios Twitter: @jacobmgevans So it is still a work in progress but som...
Writing Immutable and Functional JavaScript
Immutable Concepts and Techniques Reasons for using immutable practices in JavaSc...