Matt Zabriskie
Open source hacker. Community organizer. Co-organizer @ReactRally. Software Sommelier.
Axios: Help Wanted
tl;dr Help keep axios alive. Request to be a collaborator or join Gitter to answer questions.
A short history
In the summer of 2014 I found myself disenchanted with Angular and set out to find an alternative. After playing around with Ember I remembered reading an article on React vs. Ember (go ahead and read the comments -- . . .
Communicate Your Efforts
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
An interesting question posed by philosophers. To begin, what is sound? According to Merriam-Webster:
sound (noun): mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and . . .
How JSConf Changed My Life
The first JSConf that I attended was in 2014. Tickets were sold out, but I managed to procure one from someone on Twitter that wasn't able to attend at the last minute. I had heard a lot of positive things about the conference but didn't realize how much attending would effect my life.
On the first day of the . . .
Font Awesome + Webpack
I recently got Font Awesome working with Webpack, but it wasn't as straight forward as I had expected. I did a lot of Googling, and found lots of proposed solutions, but none of them worked for me. I thought I would share what ended up working for the sake of anyone else trying to figure this out.
index.js
require( . . .Adventures with React Native
There And Back Again
A couple weeks ago I was at a coffee shop waiting for my order and getting my morning dose of Twitter while I waited. As I scrolled through my feed on my iPhone, I noticed several of my friends were posting weird JavaScript behavior using the #wtfjs hashtag. There was some pretty classic JS weirdness like [2, 12].sort(), and 0.1 + 0.2 (go . . .
Posted in: reactreact-native
The Cool Front-End Developer
Boring front-end developers are always resting on their laurels, happy to keep using the same old UI frameworks, and libraries. They are often found using technologies, and practices of yesteryear because they have yielded great results in the past, and it's best not to mess with a good thing. However, there is another kind of front-end . . .
React: Validating Children
One of the (many) great things about React is that it offers validation of properties. This greatly aids in enforcing the API of your components. If you have a Quantity component for example, that takes a numeric value property which is required, you can use propTypes to validate that your component received what it expected.
var Quantity . . .Posted in: react
