Using Typescript — Suppose we’re building a Supply Chain Management application for a company that ships apples and bananas to hungry people worldwide. Our current goal is to determine efficient delivery requirements. In other words, how many of which boxes should be delivered to each customer. …

A deep dive into how, why, and when to use pure functions — A man walks into a bar and the waiter brings him a glass of water. After finishing his water, the man orders a whiskey sour. Instead of serving it in a fresh glass, the waiter refills the water glass with scotch, lemon juice, and sugar. Unbelievable, right? When I order…

Writing more elegant JavaScript applications with ES6’s spread operator. — The spread syntax has grown increasingly popular when it comes to writing clean and elegant JavaScript applications. By enabling us to spread the body of an object unto another, we can more seamlessly write pure, immutable functions. As always, examples are the best way to learn so let’s look at…

An easy tutorial for designing custom hooks in React — In this article, we’re going to discuss how and when to use custom react hooks to support common side effects and, in turn, write more reliable code. If you know about abstraction, that’s great, and sometimes not. Still, occasionally we need more than a simple abstraction to make code readable…

During my first on-site coding interview I encountered a concept I had never seen before. I don’t remember the question word-for-word but it went something along the lines of: Create a memoize function that remembers previous inputs and stores them in cache so that it won’t have to compute the…

Functional programming: function composition is an excellent way to maintain clean, readable code when executing long procedures. — In this article, we will briefly introduce the concept of function composition and talk about how it can make JavaScript projects more readable. Then, we’ll discuss a working example in order to demonstrate just that. So what’s function composition anyway? Mathematically, function composition is applying one function to the results of another, for example:

An overview of my experience discovering and switching over to Atomic Design in a React Native project. First, I’ll introduce my experience, the project applied in this scenario, and why I was interested in adopting Atomic Design. Next, I’ll explain what steps I took to migrate over to the Atomic…