Category: Javascript

  • Bit operators

    Bit operators

    In the beginning, there was the bits, they were the 1s and the 0s. 1s were positive bits, they gave meaning to things, 0s were negative, but necessary. When working together, they could make wonderful things. Let’s look at this group of bits what are these 0s and 1s telling us? Basically this: Each 0…

  • React Hooks and Context to Replace Redux

    React Hooks and Context to Replace Redux

    Things have changed since I came back to React a couple of weeks ago. I had used React extensively for 2 years around 2015-2017. Back then, redux was the craze. People wanted to use it for every project, no matter the complexity. React Hooks and Context have come to change that. Now that I come…

  • Maze Generation in React

    Maze Generation in React

    Play with it A few months ago I read an article on maze generation and it sparked my interest. Since then I began working little by little on a project to create a maze generator. I took the time to make it visually show the steps the algorithm takes. You can see it generating cell…

  • Angular Tutorial: Server Side Rendering

    Angular Tutorial: Server Side Rendering

    How do you go from a normal app to a server-rendered app? Let’s start with a normal app. Download  Tour of Heroes. This is the completed tutorial app they use over at angular.io. Once downloaded, head over to the root of the app and npm i  to install the dependencies. Then do npm start and head over to http://localhost:4200  to…

  • Webpack for connected set ups

    Webpack for connected set ups

    For a long time, I had the notion that webpack could only be ran for set ups that are independent from the back end. For example SPAs that only communicate with AJAX. I closed my mind into thinking that it had to be ran with a development server. You would make the webpack config file…