Being a junior developer isn’t an easy thing, there are a lot of different things to worry about. Growing out of the junior title and growing towards being a medior developer involves a variety of aspects. But a crucial one is regarding having an open mindset. If I had to…

Junior developers are often very focused on learning how to do things in their daily work. How to implement a particular feature correctly. How to use a particular framework, tool, or programming language. How to resolve roadblocks as quickly as possible. How to handle a support ticket. …

Being labelled as a junior developer often comes with a negative tone. Junior developers are frequently viewed as inexperienced, lacking in skills, requiring a lot of guidance, and making a lot of mistakes. Usually, expectations are very low for junior developers which can be quite demotivating for them. However, these…

Growing out of the junior title and making steps towards being a medior developer involves a variety of aspects. But one of the biggest ones is the things they take into consideration, or specifically what they don’t. It’s very common for junior developers to assume everything will go according to…

It’s not necessarily that you lack the technical skills yet. Or that you don’t have enough years of experience yet. Or that you don’t have a large enough social network yet. Or that you haven’t had the opportunity to display your capabilities yet. Instead, it all starts with your mindset. …

That will save you time and effort — As frontend developers, the NPM registry plays an integral part in our development. While it’s possible to create all features ourselves, there’s only so much time and resources available. For this reason, we sometimes have to reach out for existing implementations made available by other developers. This is extremely convenient…

A comparative study of 3 React accordion libraries. — Recently for my job, I had to create a set of React components to implement an accordion for our project. While one of the options was to implement everything from scratch, the alternative was to look into existing component libraries and make use of those. At first, it didn’t really…

To boost your development every day — It’s almost unthinkable to do React development without TypeScript. The two technologies have been established to be an extremely powerful duo, enabling developers to create high-quality and maintainable React applications at scale. TypeScript plays an integral part in this process. However, being a good React developer doesn’t automatically translate into…

One of the most-used hooks in React development is useCallback. The hook allows developers to easily implement memoization of callbacks, which can then be used for various performance optimization reasons. Its most prominent use case is to avoid unnecessary re-renders of components. Due to its extensive usage and the popularity…