From Chaos To System In Design Teams

oining a team where there are no established design practices may feel disheartening. Does this situation resonate with you? If yes, then read on — as this article is sharing the author’s advice based on his personal experience and it will show you a way (although not easy) of facing the problem in a manner that will bring other benefits, beside order and consistency.

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6 Ways to Stay Motivated at Work

We’ve all had the feeling - you’re trying to focus on an important project but your gaze keeps sliding out the window. Or you’re on your ninth game of solitaire for the day. Or you find yourself making endless cups of tea, and hanging out in the kitchen to chat to all your colleagues who pass through.

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ECMAScript proposal: grouping Arrays via .groupBy() and .groupByToMap()

Both methods group Arrays: Input: an Array Output: groups. Each group has a group key and an Array with group members. The algorithm iterates over the Array. For each Array element, it asks its callback for a group key and adds the element to the corresponding group.

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How to Use GitLab’s Built-In Sentry Error Tracking Service

Sentry is a popular error-tracking platform that gives you real-time visibility into issues in your production environments. GitLab’s Error Reporting feature lets you bring Sentry reports into your source control platform, offering a centralized view that unifies Sentry errors and GitLab issues.

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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and Anger: Resolving FUDA at Work

Here at Atomic, we have a lot of insider terms and quirky acronyms. Employees/coworkers? We call them Atoms. Grabbing lunch with another Atom? We call that a Pair Lunch. But one of my favorite terms we employ is FUDA (pronounced “foo-da”).

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Compound Component Design Pattern in React

Compound components are a React pattern that provides an expressive and flexible way for a parent component to communicate with its children, while expressively separating logic and UI. In compound components instead of passing state through props, we pass elements as children to a parent element.

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Exploring React 18’s three new APIs

The biggest topic in the React ecosystem right now is React 18 and the full release of its highly-anticipated concurrent rendering features. In June 2021, the React team announced the plan for React 18 and what was to come.

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The Power of Code Refactoring: How to Measure Refactoring Success

Many engineering teams struggle to measure the effectiveness of their refactoring efforts. Let's look at the 5 metrics that will help you measure refactoring success. Code refactoring provides a well-needed mental break for developers, and I think many devs can relate to this.

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The Top 7 Negotiation Skills You Need to Land a Great Job Offer

First offers aren't always the best offer, but many job seekers are scared to negotiate their salaries in fear of rejection. But the alternative isn't pretty. Settling for an underpaying job will make you feel undervalued and threaten your job satisfaction in the long run.

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Is Remix the Next Framework You Have to Learn?

Remix is the new kid on the block, the flashy website and the detailed documentation give off a sense of a very mature and well-defined solution to create dynamic web applications using React both, on the back-end and front-end.

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Microservices Testing: Key Strategies and Tools

In this post, we'll learn the importance of different types of testing, from unit testing to contract testing, and the tools to help including Pact, Vercel, and more. Development teams are increasingly choosing a microservices architecture over monolithic structures in order to boost apps' agility, scalability, and maintainability.

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Building The Real App With React Query

If you have ever built React applications that use asynchronous data you probably know how annoying it could be to handle different states (loading, error, and so on), share the state between components using the same API endpoint, and keep the synchronized state in your components.

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4 Tips for Facilitating a Discussion and Keeping Your Team Engaged

In our line of work, it is common to discuss tech-related topics such as programming styles, new technologies, and which approach is most apt for the current use case. However, it’s not as common to discuss soft skills.

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Organizing your Express.js project structure for better productivity

Express.js is the most popular Node.js framework for web development. It’s fast, unopinionated, and has a large community behind it. It is easy to learn and also has a lot of modules and middleware available for use.

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How to Challenge and Move Past Negative Self-Talk

We all engage in self-talk. There is a story about us that we tell ourselves every day. And all of us also experience setbacks and disappointments. For some of us, our setbacks turn into negative self-talk.

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Turning a GitHub page into a Progressive Web App

I just released my dice simulator app and in doing so learned about a few things about turning a GitHub Page into a PWA. To make this easier for subsequent projects, I put together a bare-bones template to turn any GitHub page into a PWA.

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Remix vs Next.js

How is Remix different from Next.js? It appears we have to answer this question! We'd like to address it directly and without drama. If you're a fan of Remix and want to start tweeting smug reactions to this article, we kindly ask that you drop the smugness before hitting the tweet button 🤗.

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How we migrated 541 components from Styled Components to Emotion with zero bugs

Refactoring CSS is one of the most challenging tasks as a frontend developer. You need to improve the code without altering the look and feel of the UI. But it's tricky to catch visual changes as you refactor an entire production codebase across multiple repos.

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10 real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines

Mainstream appreciation for cyberattacks targeting continuous integration and continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines has been gaining momentum. Attackers and defenders increasingly understand that build pipelines are highly-privileged targets with a substantial attack surface.

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Top 8 Recommended Books To Become a Better Programmer

This article contains a series of top 8 recommended books to improve your programming skills. Each book is an addition to a developer's skills and an interesting read. From concurrency, design patterns, refactoring, and microservices this list covers it all.

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Your Open Source Project Needs a devcontainer - Here's Why

TL;DR: Add a devcontainer to your projects now, you’ll thank me later. Prior to joining Microsoft I worked a consultant, so every few months I’d join with a new development team and undertake the dreaded task of any new starter… machine setup.

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My first impressions of web3

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than I am the latest NFT drop.

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API Prototyping with Postman

Whether you’re a longtime Postman developer or new to the platform, Postman brings you all the tools you need to make the process easier, faster, and more streamlined. In this article, we’ll show how Postman can help you start building the core of your API-driven integration on both sides of the API—either as the provider or the consumer.

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Getting started with Node.js and MQTT

As we may already know, Node.js is an async and event-driven JavaScript runtime and engine, powering lots of the server-side, networked applications that exist today. In this post, we are going to explore an interplay of Node.

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2021 JavaScript Rising Stars

To build modern sites and applications, it seems we have entered the era of the meta frameworks: Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit... and the promising newcomer Remix. About the tooling, the need for speed led to a shift towards languages like Rust and Go instead of JavaScript.

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Feature Flags: A Gentle Introduction

Think of a world where you don’t need a separate testing environment, where you can test everything in production and capture valuable data that helps you improve along the way. The secret ingredient: feature flags.

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Speed-Review API Specifications with Insomnia

As the software application world moves from monolith architectures to microservices, we are also seeing a shift toward developing modular and reusable APIs. According to APIOps, reusable APIs are consumable APIs, which means they must be well-documented and compliant.

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3 Ways to Establish Your Role on a Software Team

Software teams often have roles with well-established responsibilities. Having a specific title on a team — whether that’s tech lead, developer, or something else — doesn’t mean you can only work on tasks in your lane.

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Introduction To Metamask

With the web transitioning to a decentralized internet, new systems and applications are being built. In order to access them, we need tools that interact with the next version of web, web 3.0. In today’s post, we will take a look at Metamask, a gateway to the decentrailized internet.

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Top 10 Features Introduced In Tailwind CSS v3.0

Tailwind CSS v3.0 has been released on December 9, 2021. It has brought exceptional performance boosts, massive workflow improvements, and an enormous number of new features. This version is one of the most exciting releases ever for Tailwind CSS users.

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How not to learn TypeScript

“TypeScript and I are never going to be friends”. Oh wow, how often have I heard this phrase? Learning TypeScript, even in 2022, can be frustrating it seems. And for so many different reasons. People who write Java or C# and find out things are working differently than they should.

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Software Engineering Culture Metrics

Company culture. Extremely important, impossible to define. Impossible to define doesn’t mean impossible to understand. A surface-level understanding of culture is available via Glassdoor and company onboarding documents. However, a deep understanding of culture is only available via experience.

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The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers?

Nearly two years into the pandemic, many Americans are reevaluating their relationship with work. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 4.5 million Americans had quit their jobs at the end of November 2021, while 10.6 million jobs were open.

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Becoming a Better Tech Leader with Coaching

Coaching, both personal and professional, can help to understand your potential and discover ways to exercise that potential in your daily work. For Maryam Umar, coaching has proved to be highly useful in her tech work of leading testers and engineers.

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Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps)

Product roadmaps are often treated as a series of checkboxes. But they are more than that. In this article, Scott Himmer explains how internal partnerships, research, design systems, and regular touch bases can help make sure that your product roadmap is a successful one.

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Let’s Build Micro Frontends with NextJS and Module Federation!

That headline is a mouth-full, I know! In the past several years I have been working on distributed and multiple teams as well as being a pretty early adopter of NextJS (since around V2.0!) in production.

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How to Choose the Best GraphQL Server for Your Next Project

After choosing to use GraphQL to facilitate your backend API development (as opposed to REST), you still need to decide which implementation of the GraphQL spec to use. Three noteworthy GraphQL server implementations are GraphQL Yoga, Apollo Server (v3), and Express GraphQL.

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Real-Life Use-Cases for useCallback and useMemo React Hooks

One of my friends gave his React interview and the interviewer asked him to give some real-life use-cases where he actually used useCallback and useMemo to solve his problem. And unfortunately, he got stuck at that point.

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7 Essential Books for Every Software Architect

These books are interesting additions to software architects' knowledge. Including checklists, design patterns, handling legacy code, and more, this list covers it all. Note: When you purchase through links on our site, we may receive an affiliate commission.

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JS Self-Profiling API In Practice

The JavaScript Self-Profiling API allows you to take performance profiles of your JavaScript web application in the real world from real customers on real devices. In other words, you’re no longer limited to only profiling your application on your personal machines (locally) from browser developer tools!

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Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap

A beginner’s guide to the skills, tools, and technologies you need for a career as a Quality Engineer or SDETWhat should you learn to become a Quality Engineer? What languages should you pick up, what tools should you master, what skills should you practice? If someone was interested in this caree

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Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?

Date handling in JavaScript is ugly. The Developers often turn to date libraries such as moment.js but it’s a 74Kb payload and dates remain mutable. Modern alternatives such as Day.

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Double Your React Coding Speed With This Simple Trick

If you work with React or React Native, feel that your coding speed is slow, spend your time catching bugs, and not adding new features, work with long source files and have a hard time finding stuff, and implement the same logic over and over again, you will double your coding speed if you refactor your code into reusable building blocks.

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How To Price Projects And Manage Scope Screep

Scoping, estimating, and running digital projects can often feel like an exercise in futility. In this article, Paul Boag explains why you need to start breaking your projects down into manageable phases and why that’s the best way to achieve significant benefits.

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8 Employer Red Flags to Look for Before Accepting a Job Offer

If you're currently applying for jobs, there are a few things you should look out for before accepting a job offer. By identifying the following eight red flags, you can protect yourself from undesirable companies. Let's see what they are.

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Career Evaluation: Taking Stock of Your Life and Work at Year’s End

The end of the year is a natural time to take stock of your life. Work is an important part of many people’s lives. As we enter the holiday season, I wonder if this isn’t a good time to ask: What do you want your career to do for you? Do you know what you want to get out of the rest of your life — working or otherwise?

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Netlify vs. Cloudflare Pages

Serverless technologies help developers deploy and manage apps through a cloud provider. This can minimize costs because developers do not pay for what they don’t use and they don’t need to maintain a server.

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Choose Boring Technology

Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this.

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