react Extract React Hook Refactoring How to extract custom React hooks to refactor complicated logic in your components.
remote Tips & tricks for working from home Due to COVID-19, many people are forced to work from home. I have been working remotely since 2006, here some of my tips and tricks.
react Replace Conditional With Map Refactoring This is one of my favorite refactorings. It helps to group logic, making code easier to read and easier to extend.
graphql How Product Hunt Structure GraphQL Mutations At the time of this writing, our codebase and related projects have 222 mutations. Here the guide on structuring GraphQL mutations.
react Building AutoLink component in React How to build a React component which takes the text with URLs and adds links there. It uses a little known string.split feature.
rails Improve ActiveRecord polymorphic associations Polymorphic associations in ActiveRecord are very useful. A simple technique for explicitly listing which are the allowed classes.
conference Announcing React.NotAConf 2019! React.NotAConf is here for the second year. Join us on 11th May for a day full of inspiring React lectures by top speakers.
css Separating list items only with CSS How often do you have a list of items and have to add spacing or border between them? This is often boring work. Here is a simple trick on how to add spacing and spacers between elements.
books 20+ Books Developers Should Read 📚 Books, I think every software engineer should read about coding, software architecture, databases, testing and UX.
ruby Dealing with N+1 in GraphQL (Part 2) How to deal with N+1 queries in GraphQL within Ruby on Rails project when Active Record's build in preload is not enough.
ruby Dealing with N+1 in GraphQL (Part 1) How to deal with N+1 queries in GraphQL within Ruby on Rails project using GraphQL::Batch gem.
graphql Handling User Permissions in GraphQL How to handle backend permissions and authorization rules in GraphQL, by exposing flags fields.
react Announcing <React.NotAConf /> The (not a) conference would be held 28th April at The Generator (Sofia, Bulgaria). It is free to attend. ⚛️🚀
workflow Git Tricks Git is powerful, but confusing at time. Here some the helpers I use, to make my everyday tasks like creating a pull request, rebasing on master and other simpler.
workflow My Alfred Setup Why I prefer Alfred instead of macOS build in spotlight search and what Alfred workflows, I use.
react GraphQL Mutations and Form Errors GraphQL's built-in mechanism for errors doesn't play well with forms. This is how I deal with form errors and GraphQL.
graphql My GraphQL With Apollo Talk I gave a talk at Frontend Developers Conference about how Product Hunt uses GraphQL with Apollo. Here are the slides and video of that talk.
react Testing React Components Tricks Couple of minor tricks, which makes testing react components easier and future proved.
graphql Learnings From Graphql Europe This weekend, I had the pleasure to attend GraphQL-Europe, the first GraphQL conference in Europe. This is a recap of most notable things I learned there.
graphql Introducing SearchObject GraphQL Plugin When I started using GraphQL, I immediately saw, that SearchObject would be a perfect fit for search resolvers.
ruby Introducing KittyEvents Super simple publish/subscribe pattern using ActiveJob. You setup your events and list the subscribers for them. When an event is triggered, KittyEvents will fanout the event to each of your subscribers.
react Feature Flags in React Almost every feature in Product Hunt starts with a feature flag. Here is how to have feature flags with React.
react Handling Paths in React Application React Router uses the Link component for specifying url. This string works but doesn't protect us from mistyping and other issues.
