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Making the most out of GitHub Copilot

Are you using Copilot just as a code completion tool? If so, you're missing out on a lot of its potential.

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A tip for an amazing code review

As engineers, we review code on a daily basis. The code review process is something we're used to, but maybe we're underestimating the value it gives us?

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Curated list for Google I/O 2022 - Web

A list of talks from Google I/O 2022 relevant for web

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To unit, or not to unit? That is the question

The way our software is used can infer which type of tests we should write, let's discuss it.

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How to use Emojis as Favicons

If you wanted to use an Emoji as a favicon but wasn’t sure how to do it or if it’s supported, then here are all the details you need to know.

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Caring as a Service (CaaS)

Some people tend to think that our work as Software Engineers is all about coding. I can’t disagree more.

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Why you should stop using the “container / presentational” pattern in Redux

The redux style guide has an important rule: “Connect More Components to Read Data from the Store”. This rule has some important performance aspects that are covered with an example in this post.

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Introducing: The Async Cookie Store API

The Cookie Store API is a new browser API built to expose cookies to service worker and offer an asynchronous alternative to document.cookie. It’s available in Chrome Browser starting from version 87.

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The hidden magic of Main Thread Scheduling

Scheduling is a mechanism introduced lately by the React team to manage and prioritise tasks in the browser. It has become a case study for Google Chrome Dev team, to create a “Main Thread Scheduling” API.

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Custom rendering in React Testing Library Done Right

A quick explanation on creating a custom rendering function in RTL

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Wait, you’re not using <React.StrictMode>?!

StrictMode is a feature added in version 16.3 and aimed to help us in finding potential problems in an application, at the moment especially for Concurrent-Mode which is React’s ability to concurrently render, suspend, and resume rendering trees in the background while remaining interactive.

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React defaultProps is dying, who’s the contender?

React as we all know it, is changing. As a frontend developer with React experience for the past 3 years, selling me these changes was quite hard.

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Five Signs of an Undervalued Software Developer

After an interview session with a candidate, I came to an epiphany, I’m doing this all wrong.

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Exploring the wilderness: What’s new in ES2018 and planned for ES2019

An overview of the new features of ES2018-2019

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You don’t really need this package!

Yesterday I had a nightmare about a problem I bumped into while coding my new project. While searching for a solution, I couldn’t find a package that could help me. I woke up all sweaty, breathing heavily with tears.