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**The Call Kent Podcast**

The Call Kent podcast is a regular podcast where you call in with a question and Kent answers. Call in with your questions right from your web browser with any device at https://kentcdodds.com/call

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Tips on making the most of your short breaks Mar 01, 2023

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This is a discussion we were having on twitter. :D

Centered

Tips on making the most of your short breaks

Advice for a company afraid of using Node Feb 27, 2023

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I work at a smaller developer company with a big backend team. Everybody is afraid of using NodeJS so we're limited to simple SPAs as those only need an NGINX server and you're good to go. I was pushing for NextJS and nowadays Remix as I really like it, but I always feel blocked. What should I do? How could I convince my colleagues to give Remix a try?

Advice for a company afraid of using Node

How are redux thunks implementation details? Feb 15, 2023

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The official Redux recommendation is to avoid testing thunks in isolation and instead opt for integration testing with redux connected components. The main reason given is that thunks are considered implementation details.

Why are thunks considered implementation details?

In the context of async thunks in RTK can you give examples of how testing an async thunk might lead to false negatives and false positives in our tests?

What are your opinions on testing thunks in isolation that conditionally dispatch other actions, something that my team at work often does.

Example of a custom render method (docs on this)

How are redux thunks implementation details?

What makes a good react js developer? Feb 14, 2023

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Useffect needs always dependencies though we only perform that action once say for example api call, do we really need dependency for single call as well?
Use memo and use callback seems in which specific scenarios we use, cause otherwise we might endup with lot of useless usememo and usecallbacks.
Apart from this, what you want to suggest in general to make me a good react developer in terms of debugging and developing faster and understanding well. Doing personal projects, my mistakes are I am using unneccesary stuff like context usereducer for small stuff just to learn something. Is this common how to avoid this mistakes?

What makes a good react js developer?

AWS Job Opportunity Feb 06, 2023

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Looking to find my people in the AWS world that want to help others make some money without exploiting anyone.

AWS Job Opportunity

Playwright support Feb 02, 2023

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Where can I find your courses on Playwright and how are you involved in the community?

Playwright support

Tips for creating a npm package (stack-supporting) Jan 31, 2023

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In order to understand a little more about your process of creating and maintaining a npm package, three questions were asked, to know the stack used, what support for them normally and whether or not there is a template that you can share with more.

Tips for creating a npm package (stack-supporting)

How close should a hook be to its usage? Jan 12, 2023

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Transcript: Key Kent! Big fan since I started learning React many moons ago! My name is Asier and I hope you're having a good day. My question is about React custom hooks and your opinion on the following. Imagine there is one parent component in charge of rendering two children components. This parent component is using a custom hook to retrieve some relevant data, let's say that it receives the user name and the date of birth for instance. The first child component requires a prop for the user name and another for the date of birth; and the second child requires another prop but only for the date of birth. My assumption was always to use the hook as close as possible to its usage, in this case, within both children components and not in the parent component. What should be the more readable choice between using the hook just once in the parent component and drilling the props downwards to the children, as opposed to using the hook in each individual hook?

Thanks!

How close should a hook be to its usage?

What's your opinion on atomic design? Jan 03, 2023

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Atomic Web Design by Brad Frost

What's your opinion on atomic design?

How to handle file uploads in Remix? Dec 16, 2022

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Hi Kent!

How would you handle file uploads in Remix? For example, the avatar for a user's profile. Or a PDF document?

How to handle file uploads in Remix?