Minimal React: getting started with the frontend library

This blog post explains how to get started with React while using as few libraries as possible. Many tutorials provide comprehensive introductions to the React ecosystem. I wanted to try something different:

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9 Months into Working from Home, These 6 Things Are Helping Us Endure

Way back in March, I surveyed each employee (Atom) at Atomic Object. I tried to get a sense of how we managed to quickly shift from working 100% on-site to 100% remote in a day, with very little notice. (The answers included Discord, Slack, and 1:1 check-ins.

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Front-end predictions for 2021

If 2020 has proven anything, it’s that predicting the future is a mug’s game. With that said, here are my predictions for where front-end development is heading over the next 12 months 🙄

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How to Implement Lazy Loading in React with Intersection Observer

When you make a web site whose many images need to be loaded on the screen, you should take care of the performance for rending them on the browser. If you use React in the project code, you could install the react-lazyload package via NPM or Yarn.

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How to Get Started With Portainer, a Web UI for Docker

Portainer is a popular Docker UI that helps you visualise your containers, images, volumes and networks. Portainer helps you take control of the Docker resources on your machine, avoiding lengthy terminal commands. Portainer recently reached version 2.0 which added support for Kubernetes clusters.

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No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

I started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2016, after failing to raise more money, I ended up back where I began: a one-person company. Today, when I’m asked how many people work at Gumroad, I respond with “ten or so.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers?

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6 Questions that Keep Your Team Engaged During Remote Meetings

As of writing this post, we’re exactly nine months into working remotely due to COVID19. What I miss most is the ease of face-to-face meetings and that immediate feedback, visible and audible, of being at the same table.

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How To Decouple Data from UI in React

In Part 1, I presented an approach to decouple the data fetching/management layer from a React component that renders some UI based on the data, which would free us from being locked into any particular data library or framework. Let’s call this Approach A.

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How to Create Luck

My entire worldview changed when I realized that luck can be created. More precisely, you can actively create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you. The more I looked into this, the more I realized that this is not only not a new insight, but successful people have studied this for decades and I am just late to the party. In this post we'll briefly review the "Literature of Luck", and then I'll end with some personal thoughts on how it could be extended.

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