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Like many, many others, I’m in the pool of leveling up my JavaScript skills and learning how to put React to use. That’s why Brad Frost resonated with me when he posted My Struggle to Learn React.”

As Brad does, he clearly outlines his struggles point-by-point:

• I have invested enough time learning it
• React and ES6 travel together
• Syntax and conventions
• Getting lost in this-land
• I haven’t found sample projects or tutorials that match how i tend to work

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If you’re looking for more manageable ways to create bar graphs, or in search of use cases to practice CSS Grid layout, I got you!

Before we begin working on the graph, I want to talk about coding the bars, when Grid is a good approach for graphs, and we’ll also cover some code choices you might consider before getting started.

Preface

The bar is a pretty basic shape: you can control its dimensions with CSS width, height, …

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Interestingly, one of the most important areas of a blog post is the comment section. This plays an important role in the success of a post or an article, as it allows proper interaction and participation from readers. This makes it inevitable for every platform with a direct comments system to handle it in realtime.

In this post, we’ll build an application with a live comment feature. This will happen in realtime as …

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Adam Roberts (who you might recognize from our interview with him), interviewed me for the Versioning newsletter. I’m publishing my answers here for y’alls perusal as well!

Which dev/tech idea or trend excites you the most at the moment, and why?

I love that new JavaScript has arrived. I don’t know if “new JavaScript” is really the word for it, but that’s what it feels like. Major syntax improvements coupled with state and component-based thinking, coupled with powerful …

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