Tiffany R. White Blog (Page 1)

very opinionated thoughts on the web, by tiff

Micro frontends Microservices Microbreweries

Micro frontends Microservices Microbreweries

One of my favorite podcasts is Frontend Happy Hour. In this episode, Jem Young and Ryan Burgess talk to Ruben Casas about Micro frontends which I've heard about but never understood[1]. If you've ever gotten lost on the definition of what a micro frontend is, here's a clip from

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

I'd been stuck on generating the mustache templates in files when running build.rb in the CLI. # :nodoc: class Index < Mustache def head puts ' Document ' end end This isn't the right approach and as I read more of the docs I've come to understan

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

Web Workers What

Web Workers What

I am learning about web workers. The premise makes sense but I am curious about the performance bottlenecks that would crop up by a web worker spawning more workers. Screenshot of freeCodeCamp article on Web Workers. Click the screenshot to read. What happens with this when you are on a

Updating My Terminal Site

Updating My Terminal Site

I'm updating my Simple Terminal Website which I wrote about[1] three years ago. I want to better understand browser Web APIs and this is a simple enough site to test on. 1. And haven't touched... ↩︎

Incredibly Not Hot Take

Incredibly Not Hot Take

There's nothing wrong with a UI library, and Chakra UI is the one. TailwindCSS is an atomic design system yada yada, ad nauseam ad infinitum. What I want is a quick way to get a site up and running without overhead, especially if the site is just a bunch of