Monorepos can be great, but sometimes they’re a pain the proverbial butt — Monorepos are great, until they aren’t. You can think of them as beautiful sand castles on the beach. Some people build amazing castles with lots of care, I even saw one with running water once (don’t ask me how that thing worked). …

Let’s face it once and for all, Node is here to stay for a long time — Alright, just stop panicking for a minute, nobody is going to replace the runtime you’ve been using for years, so stop looking for more stable languages to learn, there is nothing wrong with JavaScript. A few years ago when Deno was announced by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, the…

Our bundler will: read all JavaScript files inside our project, calculate dependency graph, and grab code from all relevant files. — If you’re a front-end developer, you’re using bundlers whether you know it or not. It’s a tool that is embedded into every development workflow, there are plenty of options out there, but pretty much they all do the same thing, they scan your files, and try to bundle them up…

A well defined, documented and easy to use UI components library — There is a running joke within the JavaScript community about how a new framework is released every month. Well, there should be one for how a new React component library is released every month. The number of options out there is too big and picking one is not trivial. Recently…

Ditching JSX for the new web standard. Using Web Components with React and FastUI — Every React developer knows what JSX is and the benefits it provides. However, while it is a very spread piece of tech, it’s not the standard chosen by the web. When it comes to creating custom components, Web Components are the standard that all browsers are adopting and that you…

How to test React.js components with Jest and Testing Library. Test events, async behavior, mock API calls, plus more. — Testing is a crucial step within the software development lifecycle. We sometimes “forget” about it. And other times we simply assume it’s a back-end task. When in reality, testing should happen in every aspect of our code, whether it’s the back-end or the presentational front-end code, by adding unit tests…

The work of a developer used to be quite different back then — You’re probably wondering: what kind of developer can write an article like this? Let me answer that for you: an old developer.