Practices

Front-end development has evolved in the last few years, and has become a complex beast on its own. This series of blog posts will take us through the process of building a React walking skeleton from scratch for client-side applications. We will outline, and maybe implement, a small React application that will serve us as a playground. The scope will be small enough to set up all the pieces of the system without getting lost into the details of developing complex features. One important aspect will be CI/CD, a common development practice these days, even for front-end applications. ...

We live in the rush age. We are literally overwhelmed by the amount of things we have to do, both at work and outside it. We leave work and have a bunch of emails, Facebook notifications, tweets, text messages (among others), waiting for response. Even worse, we are in bed keeping an eye open looking at our mobile phone in case we get a new notification. This is ridiculous. As software developers, the same thing happens at work. The feeling is that we need to be more and more productive. We have access to a **huge** amount of information and tools in order to achieve this (Google, Stack Overflow, that new library that claims to simplify your life 1% better than the one your are currently using, etc.). But the feeling I get is that all of this is turning us into consuming machines. We consume information, process it and pack it again as soon as possible. Our output? Mostly code. And how does this work? Let’s see an example: ...