First of all, sorry for the clickbaity title. But give me a minute and hear me out. You can see it all the time: new developers spending a lot of time trying to get their portfolio websites right. In the hope to land a great job, they put in hour after hour building custom layouts that are supposed…
import Newsletter from 'components/Newsletter' Most developers know it: Automated testing is important. There are many reasons arguing for it. You might unknowingly break an app whenever you change a line of code. Manually testing your app after each change is cumbersome. Tests help document edge…
Applying for jobs can be a frustrating experience. Especially if you don't have professional experience yet. You apply and apply but rarely even get replies. Every job posting requires experience. But how are you supposed to get it if nobody wants to hire you? At the same time, you hear a lot of…
Every developer knows this situation: You're writing your code, hammering your keyboard all day long. Your code seems to work. Until it doesn't. Either it's not working as expected at all or only in some situations. You try to find the problem. You have a close look at the code. But nothing seems…
When developing a new feature many of us developers tend to jump into it via programming instead of planning the architecture out first. It may seem easier to start programming. But this often ruins us. We take the wrong approach and don't realize it until we've wasted too much time trying to…
This post is part of a series about refactoring React components The goal of this article is to help software developers write high-quality code. Even good, experienced engineers often have trouble with code-readability or don't emphasize it. At least this is what I experience almost whenever I jump…
