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code-for-a-living October 20, 2021

Why hooks are the best thing to happen to React

Originally, React mainly used class components, which can be strenuous at times as you always had to switch between classes, higher-order components, and render props. With React hooks, you can now do all these without switching, using functional components.

Doro Onome

code-for-a-living October 18, 2021

Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers

Code quality affects the mental state of a programmer, communication within their team, and the incentives attached to their work. Improve your code and you can improve your organizational health and competence as a whole.

Isaac Lyman

code-for-a-living October 13, 2021

Why solve a problem twice? Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code

Software design patterns are like best practices employed by many experienced software developers. You can use design patterns to make your application scalable and flexible.

Giridhar Talla

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stackoverflowknows October 11, 2021

Shift to remote work prompted more cybersecurity questions than any breach

For this edition of Stack Overflow Knows, we did a deep dive into cybersecurity topics across Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites to spotlight trends and reflect on how conversations are evolving within the developer and technical community.

David Gibson Senior Data Analyst

code-for-a-living October 6, 2021

Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization

If you have a REST API accessible on the internet, you're going to need to secure it. Here's the best practices on how to do that.

Sam Scott and Graham Neray

code-for-a-living October 4, 2021

Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formatting is even harder.

We discuss how to handle challenges like this with speed and scale in our latest piece from Hyland

Corey Kidd and Ben Truscott

code-for-a-living September 18, 2021

Level Up: Introduction to TypeScript

In this one-off Level Up session, we’re exploring TypeScript, a popular programming language used for web development. Josh Goldberg, a Staff Frontend Developer at Codecademy, walks us through the basics of TypeScript. We discuss its relationship to JavaScript, how TypeScript is used in real production environments (like Codecademy itself!), how to get involved in the…

Alex Kuntz

code-for-a-living September 13, 2021

Why your data needs a QA process

At this point, most software engineers see the value of testing their software regularly. But are you testing your data engineering as well?

Corissa E Haury

code-for-a-living September 8, 2021

Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)

Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.

Greg Leffler

code-for-a-living September 6, 2021

Scaling front end design with a design system

If you're building the same UI components over and over, you might need a design system.

Mihir Patel

code-for-a-living September 4, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 4

In the fourth and final lesson of the series, we’ll learn how to use SwiftUI navigation to present different views to the user. We’ll build a welcome screen with instructions for the user as well as a final screen with their results to the quiz. A user will also have the option to re-take the…

Ben Stone