The Call Kent Podcast

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Handling difficult co-workers and/or leadership Nov 29, 2021

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Your thoughts on staying positive and patient with unfriendly co-workers and/or leadership, and how to handle when they are disrespectful towards you.

Use React frameworks (Remix) for SPAs Nov 19, 2021

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There are many applications that consist mostly of a single page. Will we get any benefit if we use frameworks like Remix or Next.js for these?

Isolating tests Nov 17, 2021

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I am using testing library to test my React app and one of my tests leaks or somehow affecting and causing another one to fail if they are in the same file. They work just fine in separate files. What can be the reason for this?

Versioning and dependency management for libraries Nov 15, 2021

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How did you approach versioning and dependency management when you were building this reusable component library at PayPal? I would like to know 1. How did you go about introducing breaking changes? 2. How did you make sure that people are using the latest version of your library or it doesn’t matter if they are using the same version? What’s bad about having different teams using different versions of the same library?

Full stack framework vs front-end with saas Nov 12, 2021

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I have a question with regards to building out a minimum viable product. I am comparing using a full stack framework like django, that includes authentication and arm’s and routing and all the batteries builtin, versus creating a react app with all the backend farmed out to saas offering like auth0 for auth and the millions of sql/nosql/graphql.

With django approach, you have simple dynamic pages with server side generation and when you’re ready you can separate out the frontend to something built with react, import django rest framework and have your backend api ready to go

With the saas approach you can just focus on the front-end and scale as much as you want. And then build your own custom services to reduce costs when you’re ready. But you have to deal with integrating all those saas services to your application.

Remix Docs

Learning Gaps & Cluelessness as a Developer Nov 10, 2021

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Hello Kent, I learnt software development in a self-taught path and I really didn't do a good job (Now I know) because when I hear words like Serverless and others, I don't have the first clue what they are talking about. In summary, I'm clueless about a lot of things and I need help.

Alfred and/or ScriptKit? Nov 06, 2021

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Your thoughts on Alfred and ScriptKit.

Why React JS? Nov 05, 2021

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We're observing a lot of feedback about React and started to think "why". Why not Svetle or Vue? Why not something else.

And it's also inspired by what you have put on the epicreact.dev landing page about why React is awesome.

One of the good examples for more context please read: https://dev.to/jfbrennan/really-why-react-5958

Bailing out of re-rendering in useState Nov 05, 2021

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If useState contains a simple value like string or int, setting a new value that is the same as the existing value will not cause the component to re-render. However, if useState contains an object and I update the state with a new object that contains the exact same values, it will trigger the component to re-render. The React documentation says that is used Object.is to compare values. My 2 objects are identical, so why does the re-render happen?

useState lazy initialization and function updates

Remix Styling w/CSS in JS Nov 04, 2021

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Trying to figure out whether a CSS in JS approach will take a significance performance hit when using Remix, and whether it would be better to stick to remote and plain stylesheets.

Also wondering whether Remix has any Babel-like class naming structure, or if there might be support for Babel in the future.