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Volta for Node Version Management

Volta for Node Version Management

I was working on a project I found on GitHub and it suggested using Volta instead of nvm for your node version management. I was skeptical at first but since I started using it, I don't think I'll use nvm again. Check out the Volta docs.

Mustache Fix for my static site generator

Mustache Fix for my static site generator

useRef and useEffect Seem like code smells

useRef and useEffect Seem like code smells

Web Workers What

Web Workers What

Updating My Terminal Site

Updating My Terminal Site

Incredibly Not Hot Take

Incredibly Not Hot Take

Caching with Memoization and the Singleton Pattern

Caching with Memoization and the Singleton Pattern

react

useRef and useEffect Seem like code smells

useRef and useEffect Seem like code smells

Look I am not on the React team, nor am I smart enough to be. I also don't know what kind of heuristics they went with in order to create the library but something feels hacky to me while reading about useRef() and useEffect(). Why should a well designed library

Hooked on Hooks: Portfolio Madness

Hooked on Hooks: Portfolio Madness

Piping in a Node API from Glitch to a React Frontend

Three Ways to Pass Props to Components Outside of Parent/Child Relationships

What Are Components and Props?

What Is React Reconciliation?

How to Bind this in React Without a Constructor

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Updating My Terminal Site

A Simple Terminal Website with CSS and Typewriter.js

Course Duck for Learning JavaScript

Review: YDKJS Scopes & Closures

Keeping Your Code Simple