James Won articles - 18 total
JavaScript Hoisting: What It Is And Why It Was Implemented
Hoisting is a key concept in JavaScript that can cause unexpected behavior in your code if you're not...
The Importance of Doing Code Reviews
As a software engineering team, you want to produce high-quality code that is efficient,...
Why you should create new GraphQL queries: How I caused an incident expanding an existing query and the lessons learned
I recently started a new job about a month ago and at my new company we use GraphQL. I'm fairly new...
Trust The Process
I was recently preparing giving a talk to university students. As I prepared a number of tips for...
Spreading arrays in a resilient way using JavaScript/TypeScript
Spreading is a really handy technique that we JavaScript developers use daily. Some common usages...
How we sped up the loading time of a critical experience by 3x
Recently we sped up the loading time of a critical experience in our application by over 3x. Here's...
How PR Wait time can impact contributor experience with open source repos
My colleague from Multitudes Jenny Sahng wrote a great medium blog post about her research delving...
Why you should put effort into your Pull Request description
Pull Requests are the primary way new code is proposed, reviewed and merged. We know that Pull...
Apply DRY to knowledge, not source code
DRY or Do Not Repeat Yourself, is an often repeated important concept in programming. Most of us try...
The importance of being descriptive when naming
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil...
TIL: Template Strings used with a function
ES6 introduced the handy Template literals that you probably use day-to-day to avoid string...
Reflections: Take care when adding dependencies
Today we ran into a problem where an abandoned dependency was blocking our ability to update...
Don't abstract code too early
When we first learn to code we learn that abstracting is a good thing. "You should avoid repeating...
Importance of not mutating state in redux/react
Recently I found myself in a situation where I faced a bug caused by a mutated reducer. This led me...
Simple trick to use Array.includes() for conditionals
This is a quick post on a sweet little trick I learned. Conditionals When writing a...
JavaScript modules: The real difference between `import`, `require` and `import()`
Introduction I'm a bit ashamed to admit it but I didn't know (or care) about the...
Redux 101: Using `forwardRef` with Redux
TL;DR When wrapping a component using forwardRef in Redux's connect function, make sure your connect...
Performant React 101: `useEffect` or `useLayoutEffect`?
Front-end developers working with React use the useEffect hook all the time to render...