Storybook is one of the greatest development tools in frontend development. However, adopting Storybook isn't a trivial decision to make for a team. This article provides an overview of practical factors to consider based on personal experience, business value, and long-term impact.

CSS styling plays an integral role in the development of React components. One of the most interesting challenges is designing a component’s API around styling features. The most common way is exposing a className prop, but is that a good idea and are there better options?

NPM packages are essential to our jobs as React developers. However, with over 1.3 million packages on the registry and varying degrees of quality, picking the most suitable one isn’t always straightforward. To help, this article goes over 5 important aspects to NPM React libraries that you should pay attention to before picking them.

In the world of React development, there are so many third-party libraries Because of that, it’s easy to get lost in deciding which library to use. This article looks into 3 different libraries for implementing an accordion while going over requirements, what to consider, and drawing comparisons.

It's hard to imagine React development without TypeScript nowadays. However, being a good React developer doesn’t automatically translate into being a good TypeScript developer. This article goes over 7 different utility types that are helpful to React developers on a daily basis.

Every React developer will know of the useCallback hook and have tried to integrate it with TypeScript. However, there are various ways to do so. This article covered three different ways, namely by typing only the callback parameter(s), typing the returning value, or the call itself.

In the realm of JavaScript development, it's common to filter out nullable values from an array. However, doing this with TypeScript doesn’t always result in the expected typings. This article covers how to sort that out.

No matter whether you're new to React or an experienced developer, the world of CSS can be quite daunting to explore. This article covers the 5 CSS concepts that I think every React developer should know based on my experience using React on a daily basis.

An integral part of CSS styling resolves around the CSS box model, which is the interaction between the content area, paddings, border, and margins. Contrary to the default model, using the border-box box model has my preference for creating more intuitive styling.

Multiline text truncation is a common user interface design. It allows for saving precious screen estate, making UI more uniform, and prioritization of information for the user. This article explores how to implement it using CSS's line-clamp.

Shallow comparison is a concept all over React development and documentation. It plays a key role in React’s internals, but it’s not often explained. This article covers how it works by diving into the source code and finishes with some interesting takeaways.

Since React v17.0, you don’t have to import React anymore in your JSX files. But why was this seemingly unused import when creating React components necessary in the first place? And why isn’t it anymore now?

For memoization in React, we have 2 extremely similar hooks useCallback and useMemo. But is there a difference or are they only wrappers around the same logic with different names for the sake of convenience?

After several years, Suspense will finally be officially released with React 18. But what is it, why do we need it, what issues does it address, and what are the benefits?

React 18 will introduce a new and exciting mechanism called concurrent rendering. It opens up a world of opportunities for React developers to control user experiences, but what is it exactly and why do we need it?

This article shows you how to mock the return value of an imported function in Jest, either with mockImplementation or mockReturnValue.

With the release of React 18 on the horizon, familiarize yourself with three new APIs that should help make concurrent rendering a reality.

It can very difficult to decide whether a certain frontend framework or library is worth it to pick up. There are so many choices and the field changes on a frequent basis. But even in 2022, there are still plentiful reasons to hop onto the React train if you haven’t already.

While the year has just started, 2022 is looking extremely exciting for the world of React development. This article goes over the topics that I think will make an enormous impact on the field of React development and that you should definitely look out for in 2022.

You can't do React without JavaScript, there's no way around it. But that doesn't mean you have to master JavaScript before learning React. It's recommended, but not required.

After nearly a full year of writing technical about code readability, I learned a lot about it. But the most important thing that I learned about writing readable code is that it isn't for myself, but for others.

Although behaviour testing is extremely relevant in the field of React, not every developer will have equal familiarity and mastery of it. This article discusses a set of fundamental questions related to behaviour testing in React based on experience in multiple React engineering teams.

State management is one of the most important aspects of React development. However, not every state update should result in a re-render. This article covers how to prevent unnecessary state update re-renders by avoiding the state update or triggering the state update with the existing state.