React

How to make your React components more reusable

📅 Jan 16, 2022 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

By keeping reusability in mind when building your React components, you will have an easier time maintaining your codebase and adding new features to your app.

Reclaiming Responsibility From Best Practices in Software Development

📅 Dec 27, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

This post explores some of the common best practices, why they don't always work, and what's a better approach.

6 simple tips for working with React and TypeScript

📅 Dec 12, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Common tips, suggestions, and techniques useful when building React applications with TypeScript.

How to review pull requests more quickly: practical tips

📅 Dec 5, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

This post contains some actionable tips on how you can start reviewing PRs faster.

Fundamental tips for testing React components with Enzyme

📅 Nov 22, 2021 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

This post will cover fundamental tips and utilities that Enzyme provides to help with writing unit tests for React components.

Boost Apollo GraphQL performance with cache normalization

📅 Nov 8, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Apollo has a robust caching mechanism that can drastically improve the performance of your application.

React antipatterns to avoid

📅 Sep 19, 2021 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

These antipatterns will make your codebase a nightmare to work with.

Component composition: Fundamental skill to become a solid React developer

📅 Sep 13, 2021 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Component composition is the fundamental concept in React that's essential to learn to become a solid React developer.

Derived state - Underrated Pro tip for simplifying React state management

📅 Aug 29, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Derived State helps you simplify your code by reducing the number of variables you need to store in your state.

React polymorphic components with TypeScript

📅 Aug 22, 2021 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Polymorphic components is a powerful React pattern for controlling how your components render in DOM.

React Higher Order Components with TypeScript

📅 Aug 8, 2021 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Let's cover the right approach of implementing React higher-order components in TypeScript using generics and utility types.

Typescript: Five most useful utility types for React

📅 Jul 18, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

Let's explore TypeScript utility types for React. Utility types are a powerful feature for constructing new types.

Using React children prop with TypeScript

📅 Jun 29, 2021 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ Iskander Samatov

I'll cover each of the types used for children prop and discuss the trade-offs so you can pick the right one for your use case.