Digital Primates

09/21/2021

Learn how to create functional and declarative native audio applications using Elementary Audio. By: Nick Thompson https://www.nickwritesablog.com/functional-declarative-audio-applications/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

09/17/2021

Anyone working with React has heard the common refrain of making components reusable, but can components be too reusable? Conceptualizing component responsibility can be tricky. This article discusses some useful approaches to help you with component design. By: Emily Bartman & Phil Plückthun https://formidable.com/blog/2021/react-components/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

09/16/2021

There's a new Array prototype method arriving in JavaScript environments this summer. Array.prototype.at lets you access elements with relative indexing, which is a modest improvement if you're sick of typing out myArr[myArr.length - 1] and would prefer myArr.at(-1) instead. By: Dmitri Pavlutin https://dmitripavlutin.com/javascript-array-at/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

09/14/2021

Now for something completely different. Fabricio collected some of the most outstanding "worst volume control interface" candidates from a reddit thread about deliberately bad design. We hope some of them give you a chuckle during your workday. By: Fabricio Teixeira https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume…

09/10/2021

The most recent Node.js release implements the Web Streams API, which is new to Node, but has been available in most browsers for some time. If you're not familiar with web streams, this article can give you the basics by showing how to digest the chunks of a fetch request as they stream down to your browser. By: Dean Hume https://deanhume.com/experimenting-with-the-streams-api/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

09/09/2021

The latest update to React Devtools introduces the ability to display the names of hooks in inspected components. Very cool. By: Brian Vaughn https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react-devtools/CHANGELOG.md #4140-july-17-2021?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. - GitHub - facebook/react: A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interf...

09/07/2021

Often the advice you find coming out of huge enterprises like Google or Amazon have a hard time applying to smaller scale endeavors. In this article we get some great summaries of lessons learned in the book "Software Engineering at Google". has some succinct takeaways. By: Swizec Teller https://swizec.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-software-engineering-at-google/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, lessons apply to teams as small as 5.

09/02/2021

How close are we to being able to create a React client with no bundler? This article describes how to leverage browser ES modules, dynamic imports, and ServiceWorkers to build a React site without Webpack. There are still a lot of obstacles, but it's exciting to see how far we've come. By: Kirill Konshin https://medium.com/disdj/react-jsx-es-module-imports-dynamic-too-in-browser-without-webpack-9cf39520f20f?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/31/2021

There are numerous browser APIs that allow developers to store data on the client side. This article is an up-to-date overview on current, past, and future browser storage methods. By: Craig Buckler https://blog.openreplay.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-browser-side-storage?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

Learn how many different ways are there to store data on the browser side and which ones you should avoid!

08/27/2021

Dan Abramov of the React Team walks us through why 'npm audit' is broken and what that means your dependencies. By: Dan Abramov https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/26/2021

WebWorkers are awkward, but they're the best way to do heavy synchronous workloads without blocking the main JavaScript thread. In this article, Surma summarizes the current state of WebWorkers and lays out some abstractions that can help work around their limitations. By: Surma https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/web-workers-2021/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/24/2021

One writer's speculation as to why Microsoft is coming out with Windows 11. Don't miss the link to the Windows 95 launch video complete with dancing Bill Gates. By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols https://www.computerworld.com/article/3623772/the-real-reason-for-windows-11.html?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/20/2021

A very cool list of data structure visualizations. Who knows the next time you'll need to use a "Skew Heap" and visualize it, but this page has you covered. By: David Galles https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/18/2021

An honest appraisal of the much hailed Tailwind CSS. What happens when you have to use a popular library that you're not too fond of? You may not learn to love it, but you come to terms with it. By: Johan Ronsse https://johanronsse.be/2021/07/07/coming-to-terms-with-tailwind/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/16/2021

Regex can seem arcane to those of us who have never taken the time to dig into the details. Here is a great in-depth article that gives you the nitty gritty on one very useful regex pattern. By: Rex Egg http://rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

Describes a regular expressions technique to match a word or pattern except in certain contexts: excluding tags, ignoring contents, word blacklist.

08/13/2021

It's a common refrain that CSS doesn't make sense, but there is method to the madness if you dig deep. This article looks at percentages in CSS positioning. By: Amelia Wattenberger https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-percents?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/12/2021

With React 18 coming out, the React team has put together a helpful glossary of high-level terminology that you're likely to see thrown around. For anyone working with React, or anyone thinking about trying it out, this glossary should be required reading. By: Sylwia Vargas https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/46?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

08/10/2021

What if some awful cyber cataclysm were to wipe away the precious native Promises we've come to rely upon? Francis Stokes codes Promises from scratch in this engaging tutorial. By: Low Level JavaScript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GpwM8FmVgQ?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

=[ ℹ About ℹ ]=In this installment of Low Level JavaScript we build a Promise implementation from scratch in order to understand exactly how asynchronous abs...