Idea night: Voluntary data sacrifice
Accessibility is a hot topic in the last few years. Nearly any web-conference has at least one talk, that is dedicated to this theme. These talks contain quite ...
Author: Olena Sovyn
Senior Software Engineer (London, UK). I ❤ React, Redux, lodash, React Storybook, and functional programming overall. Always open for learning something new
Flow: Object.assign vs spreading
Recently I ran into an interesting example of how the flow is making interpretation of the values without the provided defined type.
2 dimensions of the code review process complexity
Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash You have probably been in my place. You have perfectly planned working day ahead, there are around 2-3 tasks that you need to ...
Visualizing sorting algorithms
Currently, I am going through course JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (which I highly recommend by the way). For me, one of the strongest parts of this...
Inexact vs exact flow object types: spreading
If one wants to add flow annotation to object type and reuse some of the types, that was annotated in another object type, it can be done like: However, in this...
Debugging tips – console.trace
From my observation, debugging is the best-kept secret of the developer life. Everyone is doing quite often, some are doing it even every day, but rarely anyone...
What I have learned from the Kent C. Dodds testing JavaScript course
The strange thing is happening when one is gaining more experience – it is harder to identify or to find what new to learn. It definitely depends on the w...
Book: The Nature of Software Development. Ron Jeffries
This book was suggested in our company as one, that is pretty short but contains the main concepts about how software should be created. And after reading it by...
How to add flow type definition for raw-loader
Recently I have encountered a quite odd problem. I was trying to load *.html file as a string in my React component using raw-loader , but have obtained flow er...
How to write better (code) review
As a software engineer, I do or receive code review nearly on daily basis (except probably Saturday’s and Sunday’s 😂). On the beginning of my career...