Configuration, best practices, and more — Most frontend developers use ESLint for linting their JavaScript. ESLint is a static analysis checker that analyzes your source code and looks for errors and violations of best practices. It helps you quickly find problems, even before running your app locally. ESLint is configured with an .eslintrc.json file. You can…

I’ve been a longtime advocate of pull request templates. These templates allow you to provide instructions to developers creating pull requests in your repos so that they will be reminded to include all the relevant information you need to properly review their code. Pull request templates are a great place…

As a content creator, you know that writing opinion pieces can be a challenging but rewarding task. It requires not only a strong understanding of the topic at hand, but also the ability to articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly and persuasively. But what if you could have a tool…

Using blueprint specification, Render API, and dashboard — When your app is experiencing high traffic or utilization, you need to scale your service to handle that load. Scaling can be done either vertically or horizontally — or both! Vertical scaling means making a single resource bigger or more powerful. For example, you might add more CPU or RAM…

When everyone owns quality, no one does — I’ve noticed a growing trend in software companies over the last few years in which upper management declares that quality assurance roles will no longer exist at the company. Then, the entire QA department is either let go or transitioned into traditional software development roles. Everyone is now just a…

Recursion doesn’t have to be scary — Recursion is the nemesis of every developer, only matched in power by its friend, regular expressions. Recursion can be hard to wrap your head around for a couple of reasons. First, you have to grasp the concept of a function calling itself. Second, you have to understand the difference between…

Travis CI, CircleCI, Codecov, SonarQube, CodeSee, GitHub Actions, and more — As software engineers, we love to automate. Yet code review is often a fairly manual process that takes up a large percentage of our time. How do we improve this? There are plenty of tips and tricks for doing code reviews effectively so we won’t go into those here. Instead…

Smart contracts, blockchains, crypto wallets, and more — Web3 is the next iteration of the web. As opposed to Web1, which consisted of static web pages, and Web2, which brought us web apps and the web as a platform, Web3 consists of decentralized networks built on blockchains. There is a high demand for Web3 developers, as relatively few…

Let’s buy Twitter! — For the last several months, the tech world has been abuzz with the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Whether or not the acquisition will actually happen remains to be seen, but many Twitter employees and Twitter users are concerned about what this may mean for the company culture…