The Call Kent Podcast

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How to style? Sep 19, 2021

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Nowadays, we have a bunch of approaches that we can take to style our applications, like: pure CSS, pre-processors, CSS Modules, utilities, component UI’s, CSS in JS and for some of them, we have another bunch of libraries that we can choose as well. Sometimes we can get lost in the middle of them trying to find the better one for our needs.

What do you take into consideration when choosing an approach to style?

Do you think that some use cases fit better in one approach than in another?

Is there a particular approach that you believe is ahead of the rest? Or do you prefer?

So, how to style?

SSG Hype Sep 15, 2021

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Why do you think there’s still so much hype around JamStack and SSG, when form submissions and server redirects for data mutations tend to work better a lot of the time? There’s not a lot of ecosystem interest (outside of Remix) to lean on this baked-in superpower of the web, and I find that interesting. This is less about the tech, and more about the psychology in the JS ecosystem. Maybe it’s a funding or marketing thing?
next-runtime

Managing Burnout Sep 10, 2021

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I’ve been feeling burned out lately and wanted to hear how do you deal with it.

Make It Stick: Interleave Curves Sep 07, 2021

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In the book Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. They suggest that for mastery of a subject you should be using interleave curves. The analogy given in the book to explain that is while practicing baseball you should be switching between straight and curveballs instead of doing just one or the other. What does that look like in practice while studying a topic?

What is the best way to go through EpicReact? Sep 07, 2021

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As a self taught dev who is looking to get their first job in the industry, how do you think the best way to balance this course and personal projects is? What do you think is the best use of my time as a developer to not only gain the most from this course, but also show off and apply the knowledge.

How do you find new technology Sep 06, 2021

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Asking Kent for insight into how he finds new technologies to use for his projects.

Zero to 60 in Software Development: How to Jumpstart Your Career - Forward 4 Web Summit

Difference in methods emanating from screen and render Sep 03, 2021

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What’s the difference between `screen.getByText` and `const { getByText } = render()`
More generically - what’s the difference between methods originating from these different objects

Common mistakes with React Testing Library - Not Using Screen

Dealing with "act" warning on react testing Sep 03, 2021

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So I have a MainComponent, inside there are some “remote” components like OfficeSelect, that fetches data asynchronously on mount, using axios, everytime I test MainComponent I get the “act” warning on that OfficeSelect fetch, how do I deal with that?

Fix the “not wrapped in act(…)” warning

Reusing components between different projects Sep 03, 2021

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bit.dev is one option I’ve considered, but I’m curious what you would do.

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