Promises can be both a blessing and a curse. They were supposed to clean the “callback pyramid of doom”, but instead they can often end up confusing (and I wanted to call that “The callback Temple of Doom”. It doesn’t really make sense in this context, I just like Indiana Jones) While promises do help, they are a lot more …
Improving our React workflow with ES6 and functional stateless components
Someone once asked on Twitter about the concrete, real-world benefits of ES6 (or ES2015, as it’s officially known, despite nobody calling it that). It seems the benefits would be a bit difficult to measure: ES6 mostly just adds convenience. How does a convenience-feature benefit us? If you think about it, convenience makes code easier to write. When we have more …