JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Aug 20, 2021

Monorepo is a new name for an old idea — place many software projects in the same code repository. Big companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Airbnb have been utilizing monorepos for years. Today, we see a growing number of smaller teams adopting monorepos as their way ...

Semaphore

Refactoring is like the NeverEnding Story: you might think you're done, but as long as the plot (the project) is ongoing, there is always room for more changes. That's OK though, it's part of our job, always trying to adapt, change, tweak and finetune our code to make sure it'...

Bit

According to Sayan Chowdhury, these are the common questions of people trying to start their open-source journey, How to get started with open source? I know x, y, z languages, which project should I contribute to? How can I filter out projects that cater to my skill level?...

Bit

If you're a front-end web developer, you definitely don't have any difficulties while deploying a web app to hosting services like GitHub pages, Vercel, etc. Especially if it is only a static website, portfolio, or landing page. But when it comes to uploading the back-end part...

JavaScript In Plain English

The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. In this article, we take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they're heading in the next decade....

Smashing Magazine

First thing's first - If you haven't already, install Material-UI and get familiar with their components and features. Once you're ready, we'll create our Theme Object. Material-UI provides a default theme object, but we'll usually want to override it with our own colors and s...

JavaScript In Plain English

'onDrag' allows you to execute a function when a user drags a component. It is passed as a JSX attribute. 'onDrag' Use Cases As its name suggests, 'onDrag' fires whenever a React component is being dragged. This can be useful in web apps that require drag-and-drop functionalit...

Upmostly

The term "lexical scope" may seem tricky to grasp at first glance. But it's helpful to understand what each word means. So this article will explain lexical scope by first examining the meaning of "lexical" and "scope". So, let's get it started by understating the term "scope"...

Oluwatobi Sofela

When ES6 (EmcaScript 2015) came out, it ushered in a whole new set of methods for iterating over an array. And one of the most useful is the map() method. Array.prototype.map() is a built-in array method for iterating through the elements inside an array collection in JavaScri...

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