skanev

Chronicle

I’m building an app on Twitch. Here’s an outline of what’s going on. You watch here.

Motivation

I’d like make a non-trivial web application that is both (1) useful to me on a daily basis and (2) I can use as a test-bed for experimentation with different tech. Functionality-wise, I imagine it will end up being a smörgåsbord of things I need (calories/exercise tracking, expense tracking, simple notes, todo lists, daily habits, what have you). Tech-wise, it will start as a classic Rails app, but once this is done, I might do things like:

• Create a GraphQL API and build a React SPA front end
• Build separate mobile clients with iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, etc.

kyleshevlin

// One of my new favorite React Hook patternms is to create handler
// functions for a custom hook using `React.useMemo` instead of
// `React.useCallback`, like so:

function useBool(initialState = false) {
  const [state, setState] = React.useState(initialState)
  
  // Instead of individual React.useCallbacks gathered into an object
  // Let's memoize the whole object. Then, we can destructure the
  // methods we need in our consuming component.

jevakallio

TL;DR: If you want to see me perform a spoken word poem about JavaScript in front of 1000 people (and on video), please ⭐ star this gist. If you're on mobile, you'll need to request desktop site.

JavaScript Slam Poetry