Have you ever made some changes to your code, and later found it caused something else to break? I’m sure most of us have. This is almost inevitable, especially when you have a larger amount of code. One thing depends on another, and then changing it breaks something else as a result. But what if that didn’t happen? What if …
Getting started with npm and Browserify in a React project
This is the second article in a series where we build a Slack-style chat app with React. So far, in the previous article, we’ve built a simple prototype. We want to start adding features to it – such as actually supporting multiple people chatting – but before we do that, let’s set up some tools. npm and Browserify are useful …
Learning React basics and building a basic application prototype
This is the first part in a series of articles, where we’ll be using React to build a Slack-style chat application. In this article, we’ll start by building a basic prototype. We’ll start by learning about React components and JSX. While doing that, we’ll also look at the basics of building React applications.
Getting started with React the easy way
There’s a lot of talk lately about how it’s hard to get started with JavaScript libraries like React. You need ES6, you need Babel, you need this, you need that. If all you want is to try a library, there’s tons of technobabble getting in your way, sometimes involving so many steps it’s easier to just go and do something …
Top 5 articles of 2015
With one year gone again, here’s the top 5 content from 2015! What’s the difference between unit testing, TDD and BDD? Comparison of JavaScript Linting Tools (ESLint vs JSLint vs JSHint vs JSCS) How to unit test NodeJS HTTP requests? What are Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Functional Testing? Getting started with ECMAScript 6 In 2015 the site’s traffic more …