There are a ton of tutorials about the implementation of applications in React. Most of the time, they use basic components to teach the fundamentals of React, because, to be fair, everything else is hard to cover in one tutorial. Only a handful of long written content will take you on the journey to build more powerful components. I want to take…
It might be a common issue in teaching computer science at universities: While you learn about bubble sorts, lambda calculus and permutations, nobody mentors you about common developer subjects. In the early days at university, I often wondered: What is an API? Not everyone is fully aware of it, but APIs follow us through a multitude of…
Recently I have read Give and Take: A revolutionary approach to Success by Adam Grant. It is an inspiring book and I found myself taking too many notes while reading it. Now I want to summarize my learnings, to internalize them, but also to give others access to it. In his book, Adam Grant dives deep into the spectrum of altruistic to selfish…
At the time of writing this, I am travelling through South East Asia. On my quest to experience the countries in their most natural ways, I try to connect with locals often as possible. When travelling a country, it is not about seeing another cave or waterfall that drives me. Instead, I seek to connect with the local people. When speaking to them…
I used Redux excessively the last years, but spent the recent time with MobX as state management alternative. It seems that Redux alternatives evolve naturally into confusion in the community. People are uncertain which solution to pick. The issue isn't necessarily Redux vs MobX . Whenever there exists an alternative, people are curious what…
This tutorial is outdated. Please read over here everything you need to know about React Ref . In the past there has been a lot of confusion around the ref attribute in React. The attribute makes it possible to reference a DOM node in order to access it and to interact with it. This article should give some clarification around the ref…
"A state of flow can be achieved by deep work". The subjects flow and deep work are covered in the books Deep Work by Cal Newport and Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I read both books, personally I can say that they are outstanding, and they can be well combined when it comes to satisfaction in a person's life. The following article summarizes my…
I did a lot of Angular 1.x back in the days until I started to use React. I can say that I used both solutions extensively. But there were and are several reasons why I moved to React. These reasons were not clear from the beginning, but retrospectively I think I can summarize these very well. In the following I want to give you 10 reasons why I…
As a software engineer you will come to a point where writing matters. Perhaps you want to leave your fellow developers a note, you have to write an e-mail to a customer or you have to sum up the recent meeting notes. In my case, it went even further because I have my own website where I write about software development and where I started to…
The following document is only a cheatsheet which summarises the steps you need to take to setup your own website. On purpose it's called technical, because you will not use a content management system (CMS) like Wordpress. It doesn't claim to be complete nor to guide you exhaustively through the whole process. After all it should only give you…
