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Hooks make it possible to organize logic in components, making them tiny and reusable without writing a class. In a sense, they’re React’s way of leaning into functions because, before them, we’d have to write them in a component and, while components have proven to be powerful and functional in and of themselves, they have to render something on the front end. That’s all fine and dandy to some extent, but the result is a DOM that is littered with divs that make it gnarly to dig through through DevTools and debug.

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This little site by Remy Sharp’s makes it clear whether or not a JavaScript method changes the original array (aka mutates) or not.

I was actually bitten by this the other day. I needed the last element from an array, so I remembered .pop() and used it.

const arr = ["doe", "ray", "mee"];
const last = arr.pop();
// mee, but array is now ["doe", "ray"]

This certainly worked great right away, but I didn’t realize the original array had changed … Read article

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I am attracted to the idea that you shouldn’t care how the code you author ends up in the browser. It’s already minified. It’s already gzipped. It’s already transmogrified (real word!) by things that polyfill it, things that convert it into code that older browsers understand, things that make it run faster, things that strip away unused bits, and things that break it into chunks by technology far above my head.

The trend is that the code we author is … Read article

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What do you wish CSS could do natively that it can’t do now? First, let’s review the last time we did this in 2013.

1. ❌ “I’d like to be able to select an element based on if it contains another particular selector”
2. ❌ “I’d like to be able to select an element based on the content it contains”
3. ❌ “I’d like multiple pseudo elements”
4. ❌ “I’d like to be able to animate/transition something to height: auto;“
5. ❌ “I’d

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