Alex Lohr articles - 21 total
💎 of solid-primitives, part 3: set, map, trigger
Author: @lexlohr, developer at @crabnebuladev and Solid.js ecosystem team member Solid.js is already...
Does TypeScript fail at enums?
The concept of enumerables is quite simple: an item that can represent a finite number of different...
💎 of solid-primitives, part 2: storage
Solid.js is already pretty powerful, but even so, there are things it cannot do out of the box....
💎 of solid-primitives, part 1: context
Solid.js is already pretty powerful, but even so, there are things it cannot do out of the box....
The zen of state in Solid.js
Cover image from https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-jsrnn Solid.js is a frontend framework that is...
Deploy a solid-start app on github pages
Solid-start is the long awaited meta-framework for Solid.js. Since it entered its second beta after a...
Using Solid Start with GitHub pages
⚠ Warning: the information in this article is outdated. There is a new version of solid-start that...
Concepts behind modern frameworks
Many beginners ask "which framework should I learn?" and "How much JS or TS do I need to learn before...
About criticism
Everybody is a critic. Every developer has both been on the receiving and the giving end of...
Discuss: package sabotage
(image copyright by Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, shared on flickr under CC-AT-SA) Like any war,...
Testing your Solid.js code in vitest
Some time has passed since I showed you how to test your Solid.js code with jest and uvu or tape, but...
A new paradigm
I witnessed the rise of a new paradigm in the world of JS development that surprised me:...
Testing Solid.js code beyond jest
So, you started writing an app or library in Solid.js and TypeScript - what an excellent choice -...
Testing your Solid.js code with jest
So, you have started to write a nice app or library in Solid.js and TypeScript - good choice, by...
Let's fix the negative framing of technical debt
Technical debt is usually compared to letting a kitchen become dirty or taking a risk, a pragmatic...
Conditional hooks?
One thing you'll find out early adopting react is that you cannot have conditional hooks. This is bec...
react hooks tripwires
image released to the public domain by The U.S. National Archives React hooks are simple and powerfu...
Considering `??` vs `||`
The nullish coalescing operator ?? will result in the left expression unless that contains null or un...
Optional booleans?
If you define APIs, you usually discuss names and types a lot. One of these discussions brought up th...
Unit testing with Jest/TypeScript hands-on session
or: how to prepare a hands-on session I recently had a fun and instr...
Feature toggles in the front-end - useful pattern or delivering dead code? #discuss!
Discussion on how feature toggles are a popular pattern in the backend, where the hidden code is not exposed to the user, but in the front-end, it may lead to unused code being delivered to the client