React Dev
Gnarly Learnings from September 2023
Turbo from the perspective of React devs, the value proposition of web components, and current trends in serverless computing.
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from July 2023
At The Gnar we are always reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. ComparisonValidator Gone are the days when we need to write custom validators in Rails to determine if a start date begins before…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from June 2023
At The Gnar we are always reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Understanding TypeScript’s Newest Keyword: using One of the reasons I appreciate TypeScript’s place in the Node.js ecosystem is how they approach incoming JS…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from March 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. compareDocumentPosition Sorting is a common feature requirement for any list UI. It is straightforward enough to write a unit test for a custom sorting function, comparing its…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from February 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Improved Absolute URL Detection in React Router Link Component The Link component is an important aspect of React Router’s tooling, but historically we have had to fall…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from January 2023
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. bin/rails notes Code comments are a pretty controversial topic but if you’re a rails developer and you’re in favor of them you should definitely check out bin/rails…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from December 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. OWASP Top Ten It’s important to stay sharp when it comes to online security. The Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP, is a non-profit organization dedicated…
Read MorePower up SVGs with React and CSS
SVGs (scalable vector graphics) may be old news, but we use them in modern development stacks all of the time. Our device displays have increasingly more pixels, and SVGs can scale infinitely while staying crisp and clean. Similar to HTML, the SVG standard is based on XML and provides a way to describe shapes and…
Read MoreGnarly Learnings from November 2022
We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives fresh. Here are some of the resources we learned from this month. Embedding with Sidekiq 7.0 Mike Perham, the creator of Sidekiq, wrote a blog post discussing one of the features of the newly released Sidekiq 7.0: embedding! Prior…
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