I was fortunate enough to start my front end career by actually using bare bones JS and CSS while we were trained 3/6 months. Others are not so lucky, they have to jump in on frameworks directly. In this post, I give a gentle introduction of React's state... (more…)

I have always had a deep interest in writing Desktop applications. What was holding me off throughout the years was, I wasn't interested in learning C++ or Java to make them. I wanted to build Desktop apps with Javascript, so I landed on Electron, a Javas... (more…)

A React component for resizable split views. Contribute to johnwalley/allotment development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

React provides no built-in way to do data loading - it's left for you to implement. Doing this is tricky in a React app that uses server side rendering (SSR) because client and server rendering work quite differently: Client render is async so data can be... (more…)

Part 2/2 in a series on how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. We'll explore a few charting libraries and talk about how we picked ours. (more…)