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2022

• Delete Git Branches That Have Been Merged
• How to Run SketchUp Make 2017 on an M1 Mac with macOS Monterey
• Installing a Code Signing Cert from Sectigo (to sign an Electron app on Windows)
• Implementing A Svelte Store In Rust
• Interview Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

2021

• Attach VSCode Debugger to native Rust in an Electron app
• Example of Using napi-rs with Electron
• Escape Liquid in ConvertKit (so you can use double braces)
• How to Manually Symbolicate a Crash Log from a macOS App
• Using Forms in React
• ESLint + VSCode: How to Format Your Code Using .eslintrc
• How to Read React Errors (fix 'Cannot read property of undefined'!)
• React State Management Libraries and How to Choose
• State of the React Ecosystem in 2021

2020

• Using the image tag in React
• Remove XML Tag Blocks from the command line with sed
• Run Code in React Before Render
• Directly Open The Inspector Stylesheet in Chrome
• Svelte with TypeScript and Jest (Starter Project)
• Center Things in CSS with this VSCode Snippet
• Set Up Chrome for Screencasting with a Custom Profile
• Do you need CSS-in-JS with React?
• Build A Confirmation Modal in React with State Machines
• Customize the Color of VSCode's Error Underline Squiggles
• Fix useEffect re-running on every render
• A Review of The Tiny MBA
• Example of Reactively Destructuring Variables in Svelte
• React Hook to Run Code After Render
• Linked Lists for JavaScript Developers
• A Visual Guide to References in JavaScript
• Smaller React Projects, with Parcel
• Deploy a Project to Your Server with Git
• Using Tailwind CSS with Create React App
• How I Learn New Things
• The Tutorial Trap
• What React Does (and Doesn't Do)
• A Complete React Tutorial for 2020

2019

• Why React has been Hard to Learn
• How I Learned React
• React is Trending
• Why I Got Into React
• What's Coming at React Conf 2019?
• When to useLayoutEffect Instead of useEffect (example)
• Use Svelte with SASS/SCSS in VSCode (example + cloneable repo)
• Introduction to Svelte
• Write Custom Hooks to Clean Up Your Code
• CSS Layout Tutorial, Step by Step
• Redux Selectors: A Quick Tutorial
• A Complete React Redux Tutorial for Beginners (2019)
• Access the Redux Store Outside a React Component
• How to Write a Blog That People Will Read
• Start a Blog in 2019 with Gatsby.js and Netlify
• Make Your Own React CLI with Bash
• The Path to Becoming a Front End Developer in 2019

2018

• React Project Ideas, and How to Invent Your Own
• How to Export a Connected Component
• React useContext Hook Tutorial (with Examples)
• How the useEffect Hook Works (with Examples)
• Examples of the useReducer Hook
• 4 Examples of the useState Hook
• A Simple Intro to React Hooks
• Customize Create React App Structure with Bash
• You Might Not Need The mapDispatchToProps Function
• 6 Fun React Project Ideas
• Immutability in React and Redux: The Complete Guide
• Computed Properties in React
• How to Display a List in React
• Pass Multiple Children to a React Component with Slots
• Redux vs. The React Context API
• Access-Control-Allow-Origin: Dealing with CORS Errors in React and Express
• AJAX Requests in React: How and Where to Fetch Data
• Perfect Pulled Pork with React Native, Expo, and Express
• What the heck is a 'thunk'?
• Why Not To Modify React State Directly
• Deploy React and Express to Heroku
• Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
• Where to Initialize State in React
• What is a Redux reducer?
• Love JavaScript, but hate CSS?
• Where and When to Fetch Data With Redux
• Hot Reloading in Create React App Without Ejecting

2017

• How Redux Works: A Counter-Example
• What Does Redux Do? (and when should you use it?)
• Learning React as an Experienced Developer
• Justifying React to the Business
• Snapshot Testing APIs with Jest
• Create React App: Customize Webpack Config Without Ejecting
• Keeping Up With the JavaScript World
• Using React in Multiple Environments
• Cheat to Win: Learn React with Copywork
• Learning React? Start Small.
• How to Structure Your React Project
• Convert React.createClass to ES6 Class
• Convert React.createClass to Stateless Function Components
• Create React App with an Express Backend
• Snapshot Testing React with Jest
• Reusable State with Higher Order Components
• Where to Fetch Data: componentWillMount vs componentDidMount
• Roll the Dice: Random Numbers in Redux
• When to Define Action Creators in Redux
• Deploy Create React App with Surge
• Watch Out for Undefined State
• Thinking Statefully

2016

• Modal Dialogs in React
• You Don't Need a Boilerplate
• How To Learn React (and what to build along the way)
• Worthwhile Testing: What to test in a React app (and why)
• Testing for PropType Errors in React
• A Visual Guide to State in React
• Dividing React Work Between Designers and Developers
• The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand
• React App Not Working? 4 Quick Debugging Tips
• Best Alternative to Binding in Render
• Create React App: The Fast, Official, and Build-Free Way to Create React Projects
• Getting Started with TDD in React
• Improve Angular Performance with React
• Don't Use Bind When Passing Props
• React Gotchas
• React: ES5 (createClass) or ES6 (class)?
• Do I need Node.js in the backend?
• Angular Directives Mapped to React
• Your Timeline for Learning React
• Why React? Why not Angular 2?
• Getting to Grips with React (as an Angular developer)
• Overview of JS Environments for Newcomers
• CSS Transitions Explained
• Angular 2: Should You Upgrade?
• Waiting for Promises in a Loop
• Angular 2 Errors
• Angular Testing Part 3: Testing Recipes
• Angular Testing Part 2: Jasmine Syntax

2015

• Not testing your Angular code? Here's how to start
• Sharing Data Between Controllers? Best Practice: Use a Service
• Escape or Sanitize HTML in Angular
• Inline Templates in Angular: Quick Tip
• Angular 2 with ES6: How to Set It Up
• Access-Control-Allow-Origin: Dealing with CORS Errors in Angular
• TypeScript, ES6, Questions, Answers
• Angular 2 in Plain JS
• Kill $scope - Replace it with controllerAs
• Jasmine 2 Spy Cheat Sheet
• Controller Function Is Executed Multiple Times
• Service vs Factory
• Dynamically Add Elements to the Page With Angular's ng-repeat and ng-include
• Dynamically set the URL with ngResource
• Handle DOM Events the Angular Way Without jQuery
• Infinite Digest Cycle in Angular Directive
• Basics of Angular: Start Here
• Angularytics vs. Angulartics
• Multilingual Angular - Using Two (or More) Languages in Your App