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André Simões

André Simões
Web Developer

June 29, 2020

Two years of micro-frontends: A retrospective

Monday, June 29, 2020 Teklinks

We’ve now been using micro-frontends for two years at Beamery. In May 2018 we wrote a post announcing to the world that we’d solved our legacy application problem. Legacy is a constant in JavaScript. Here’s how we solved it

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June 28, 2020

Senior to Lead software developer, things they didn’t tell you

Sunday, June 28, 2020 Teklinks

It’s rare you will get to pick up a coding task from start to finish, especially if its a big task. If you do everything else will take a hit. Trust your team! You will never grow as a team if you try and control everything. All developers have strengths and weaknesses, including leads.

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June 26, 2020

How to create your own shared esLint, prettier and stylelint configuration

Friday, June 26, 2020 Teklinks

Linters and code formatters make a developer’s life easier. They help you to follow coding and formatting standards, without constantly thinking about it. Or in other words, based on the great work the authors Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir (Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much Kindle Edition): They reduce the tax on the cognitive bandwidth (bandwidth tax) and developers can focus on other actions.

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June 24, 2020

An Introduction To SWR: React Hooks For Remote Data Fetching

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Teklinks

In this article, we’ll be looking at a new way of retrieving data in React Apps named SWR. This is a set of hooks for remote data fetching that makes things easier, such as caching, pagination, and so on. We’ll also be building a Pokedex App from scratch and using SWR features to get data and paginate it.

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Maintaining Order with Apollo Query Hooks

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Teklinks

On my current React project, we are using the hooks provided by Apollo to fetch and mutate data with GraphQL. One of the components I wrote had a query that relied on data from a previous query. The component looked similar to this example:

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June 20, 2020

How to Generate Meeting Reports in Zoom

Saturday, June 20, 2020 Teklinks

Zoom provides a way to generate meeting reports of previous meetings. These reports can contain specific information about the participants, as well as results from polling questions. Here’s how to generate meeting reports in Zoom.

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Better Reducers With Immer

Saturday, June 20, 2020 Teklinks

12 min read Tools, React, JavaScript Share on Twitter or LinkedIn In this article, we’re going to learn how to use Immer to write reducers. When working with React, we maintain a lot of state. To make updates to our state, we need to write a lot of reducers.

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10 Top Preact Libraries and Tools for 2020

Saturday, June 20, 2020 Teklinks

Preact is an alternative to the popular React library. It has fewer complexities and performs faster in comparison to React due to its smaller size of 3kb. Preact also uses the ES6 API similar to React. It was developed by Jason Miller to provide a feature set similar to React in a smaller package.

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June 18, 2020

Auto Version Bumps with Github Actions

Thursday, June 18, 2020 Teklinks

Automate your NodeJS package.json semver bumping on every pull request merge into master! Since I’ve been developing in NodeJS, one thing has always been a thorn in my side. Having to remember to bump the package.json version for our code releases.

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React Hook Form VS Formik

Thursday, June 18, 2020 Teklinks

Working with forms is one of the most challenging problems to solve when developing applications with React. React is a minimalist UI library focused only on controlling the behavior of the interface, making sure that the UI change appropriately as a response to the user’s activity.

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June 17, 2020

Grid for layout, Flexbox for components

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Teklinks

My brother is a fresh computer engineering graduate and he is currently finishing his internship in front-end development. He learned about both CSS grid and flexbox, but I noticed a pattern that I see a lot on the web. He can’t decide when to use grid or flexbox.

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Software Project Estimates – When, Why, and How?

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Teklinks

It can seem daunting to estimate the effort involved in a large software project. And it’s easy to start thinking: “Because estimates are always wrong, they aren’t that valuable.” But there are many benefits of estimation.

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June 16, 2020

June 15, 2020

Service Worker Lifecycle Explained

Monday, June 15, 2020 Teklinks

The Service Worker lifecycle is arguably the most complex part around Service Workers and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). I only felt like I understood it completely while writing this article, and I hope it will make your life with Service Workers a lot easier.

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SEO Cheat Sheet

Monday, June 15, 2020 Teklinks

When it comes to SEO there are a lot of things you need to consider to keep your website up to date. This tool aims to help you with the technical side of On-Page SEO and includes a sorted list of best practices. And since I know that you're a busy person, I tried to implement them in a TL;DR way.

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June 12, 2020

How to use React Testing Library Tutorial

Friday, June 12, 2020 Teklinks

React Testing Library (RTL) by Kent C. Dodds got released as alternative to Airbnb's Enzyme. While Enzyme gives React developers utilities to test internals of React components, React Testing Library takes a step back and questions us "how to test React components to get full confidence in our React components": Rather than testing a component's implementation details, React Testing Library puts the developer in the shoes of an end user of an React application.

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June 11, 2020

June 10, 2020

Top 27 Best Practices For Selenium Test Automation

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Teklinks

I’ll share 27 top tips for Selenium test automation, which will help you get the most value out of automation testing efforts. In recent years, you’d hardly see an organization who had not transitioned to automation testing.

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One Cool Trick to Simplify Reducer Functions

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Teklinks

Redux is an amazing tool if you take the time to get to know it. One of the things about Redux that commonly trips people up is that reducers must be pure functions. The problem is that sometimes a reducer needs to make a complicated change to some input state, but you can’t just mutate the state argument without causing bugs.

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Lazy-Loading Angular Modules (Ivy and Async Await)

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Teklinks

In this post you’ll learn how to Lazy Load an Angular module. Lazy loading means that our code isn’t downloaded by the browser until it’s needed. For instance, if I login to /admin I would get a “chunk” of JavaScript code specifically for the Admin dashboard.

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June 9, 2020

Best practices for REST API design

Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Teklinks

In this article, we'll look at how to design REST APIs to be easy to understand for anyone consuming them, future-proof, and secure and fast since they serve data to clients that may be confidential.

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The rise of React

Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Teklinks

The World Wide Web of 2020 is a far cry from what it was just five years ago, never mind 20 or more. In the early 2000s, when the first screech of my dial-up modem died down and data began to course through the copper wires of my telephone connection into my desktop PC, I suddenly had all the world’s information at my fingertips—and boy, did I know it.

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Managing generated files in GitHub

Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Teklinks

Is this actually a large Pull Request or are you just looking at too many generated files? Are those generated files even reviewed? If you’re using GitHub and work with generated files in your repository you may be seeing large diffs and merge conflicts as you update your newly generated files.

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June 5, 2020

Startups Weekly: Remote-first work will mean ‘globally fair compensation’

Friday, June 05, 2020 Teklinks

Most tech companies base compensation on an employee’s local cost of living, in addition to their skills and responsibilities. The pandemic-era push to remote work seems to be reinforcing that — if you only skim the headlines. For example, Facebook said last week that it would be readjusting salaries for employees who have relocated away from the Bay Area.

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June 4, 2020

Building Reusable React Components Using Tailwind

Thursday, June 04, 2020 Teklinks

Tailwind is a popular utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level class names to web developers. It does not have any JavaScript and works well with existing frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, Ember, and others. Whilst this is positive, it can be confusing for new developers to understand how to integrate Tailwind in their applications. In this article, we’ll explore ways to build reusable React components using Tailwind.

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June 3, 2020

How to Request a LetsEncrypt Certificate Using Acme

Wednesday, June 03, 2020 Teklinks

LetsEncrypt changed the SSL certificate world when its offer of free, short-lived, SSL certificates allowed a vast amount of individuals and companies to secure their web applications at no cost. With this service, the necessary infrastructure would need to exist, and to that end, a plethora of applications sprung up that fit the SSL-issuing needs.

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June 1, 2020

Remote Work Means Anyone Can Take Your Job

Monday, June 01, 2020 Teklinks

When everyone’s face is milliseconds away on a Zoom call, who cares where their butts are sitting? Remote workers could be anywhere in the world. They are, by default, outsourced. It really doesn’t matter where you hire from anymore.

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