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Author: Olena Sovyn

Staff Software Engineer (London, UK). I ❤ React, Redux, lodash, React Storybook, and functional programming overall. Always open to learning something new
flowtype

How to add flow type definition for raw-loader

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Olena Sovyn / 3 Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 , ...

Thoughts

How to write better (code) review

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 5 minutes As a software engineer, I do or receive code review nearly daily (except probably Saturday’s and Sunday’s ?). At the beginn...

React

Playgrounds for React patterns: compound components and render as a props

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Olena Sovyn / 1 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes During my preparation to talk in Verona on ReactJSDay I have tried to dive deep in some patterns in React that have been broadly discus...

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CSS/HTML/Tricks

Accessibility practical guide

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently in many front-end conferences, the accessibility topic appears very often and in some way, it reminds me the endless discussio...

JavaScript

How not to miss updates in React Documentation

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute React is the “instrument” that I am using on a daily base, and for this reasons, I am trying not to miss any updates th...

Tricks

How to make smart chaining of custom pure functions

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes I love the concept of functional programming. Lately, in addition to my work with React + Redux +JS, etc. I have worked also a lot with...

svg

How to convert icons from fonts to separate svg files

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently I have moved out rich text editor from the TinyMCE to the Draft.js. I wanted to make this transfer as less noticeable as possi...

Draft.js
JavaScript

8 Playgrounds for Examples from Official Draft.js Repository (v.0.10.0)

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Olena Sovyn / 1 Comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last four working days were quite interesting, as I was moving rich editor that we used in our application from the TinyMCE to Draft.js...

Job

How to find tech job in United Kingdom

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Olena Sovyn / 0 Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Last year I relocated to London and was faced the need to find the job for myself. At the beginning of my search, I have found one of t...

react-storybook
JavaScript

How to add basic styles to the react storybook application

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Olena Sovyn / 1 Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently I have started to investigate how we can use the react-storybook to separate the View (mostly UI dump component) from the data...

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