WEBDEV February 20, 2025

Leveling Up in React: My Journey with Advanced Hooks

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Leveling Up in React: My Journey with Advanced HooksFor the first few months of learning React, I lived in a comfortable world defined by two hooks: useState and useEffect. They were my hammer and ... Read article

WEBDEV January 15, 2025

My TypeScript 'Aha!' Moments: Best Practices I Learned on a Real Project

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My TypeScript ‘Aha!’ Moments: Best Practices I Learned on a Real ProjectI just spent a semester wrestling with a pretty complex web application for my software engineering course. We chose TypeScript from the start, thinking it would magically prevent all bugs. It didn’t. But what it did do was force us to be better engineers. Along the way, I had a few “aha!” moments—things that, once they clicked, completely changed how I write code. Here are the big ones. Lesson 1: Your tsconfig.json is Yo... Read article

WEBDEV October 20, 2024

Navigating the Framework Maze: A Student's Take on React, Vue, and Angular

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Navigating the Framework Maze: A Student’s Take on React, Vue, and AngularFor one of my CS courses this semester, we have to build a dynamic web application to showcase our final project. That means I’ve been thrown headfirst into one of the most daunting decisions a student developer has to make: choosing a JavaScript framework. The internet is full of strong opinions, and it feels like picking a side in a war. After weeks of tutorials and reading, here’s my attempt to make sense of the big ... Read article
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