Glenn Reyes glennreyes

https://twitter.com/snookca/status/1073299331262889984?s=21

‪“‬In what way is JS any more maintainable than CSS? How does writing CSS in JS make it any more maintainable?”

‪Happy to chat about this. There’s an obvious disclaimer that there’s a cost to css-in-js solutions, but that cost is paid specifically for the benefits it brings; as such it’s useful for some usecases, and not meant as a replacement for all workflows. ‬

‪(These conversations always get heated on twitter, so please believe that I’m here to converse, not to convince. In return, I promise to listen to you too and change my opinions; I’ve had mad respect for you for years and would consider your feedback a gift. Also, some of the stuff I’m writing might seem obvious to you; I’m not trying to tell you if all people of some of the details, but it might be useful to someone else who bumps into this who doesn’t have context)‬

So the big deal about css-in-js (cij) is selectors.

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

In this talk we will be all discussing the origin of the furry fandom. How we will thogheter create a new furry-in-js framework. We will going over how they have changed the current fandom world, our hearts and the js world in 5 very awesome minutes! This talk is to prove a point that stars mean nothing in this case.

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Make linting great again!

No other topic in software development probably has so much controversy as linting.

With a wrong workflow linting can be really a pain and will slow you and your team down. With a proper setup, though, it can save you hours of manual work reformatting the code and reducing the code-review overhead.

With styled-components into the future

Preprocessing is dead, long live preprocessing!

This is a CFP for ReactiveConf 2017's open call for Lightning talks. If you'd like to see this talk become a reality, please ⭐ star this gist. #ReactiveConf

Docker-based Web Application Setup (example)

This is an example of hosting standalone web front-end (web) and data API (api) applications under the same domain via Nginx (acting as a reverse proxy) and Docker, where HTTP requests starting with example.com/graphql and example.com/login/* are being redirected to http://api:3000 and everything else under the same domain is going to be passed to http://web:3000.

Folder Structure

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├── /nginx.sites/               # Server configuration for each of web apps
├── /nginx.snippets/            # Nginx code snippets

React lifecycle cheatsheet

Method	Side effects¹	State updates²	Example uses
Mounting
`componentWillMount`		✓	Constructor equivalent for `createClass`
`render`			Create and return element(s)
`componentDidMount`	✓	✓	DOM manipulations, network requests, etc.
Updating
`componentWillReceiveProps`		✓	Update `state` based on changed `props`

	// @flow
	import React from 'react';
	import styled from 'styled-components';

	type GlobalCssValues = 'initial' \| 'inherit' \| 'unset';

	type WrapValue = 'nowrap' \| 'wrap' \| 'wrap-reverse' \| GlobalCssValues;

	type JustifyValue =
	\| 'center'

	# Install Oh My Zsh
	sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

	# Install Homebrew
	/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

	# Install Homebrew packages
	brew install git
	brew install java
	brew install mackup

	import express from 'express';
	import React from 'react';
	import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
	import App from './components/App';
	import {flushServerSideRequires} from 'react-loadable';

	let app = express();

	let webpackStats = require('./output-webpack-stats.json');