Hi, I’m Chip. I’m a Front End Developer living in the Washington D.C. area, currently working at PBS. My background is in design, so I approach development with a designer’s eye.
Do your pull requests languish for days before someone finally gets around to looking at it? Is the feedback that you get unhelpful? Are you finding nasty bugs in your code only when someone looks at your PR’s? I’ve been there. And I know a better way - follow along!
Keep reading How to make better Pull Requests: Adding Steps to Test
The other day I was struggling with a bug that was caused by an eventListener not being properly removed in a React Component. I struggled for a long time with why the eventListener wasn’t getting removed, and learned several things along the way I wanted to share. The original component, and the issue The code in question followed this pattern:…
I just wanted to share my thought process about an oft-used tool in my arsenal, that I’m not sure a lot of developers think about: Spreadsheets I can hear the yawns already. But, hear me out. Have you ever wanted to check every view on a site to make sure they did what you expect in some way?…
I was struggling with writing a test the other day for a React component that was mostly a stateless component, but it did read two properties of the window object and made some decisions based on that. The problem is that Jest makes use of jsdom which doesn’t provide the window object.…
Keep reading How to Fake the Window Object in Jest and Enzyme
I wanted to share some of the experiences that I had migrating this blog from a Wordpress site to a Hugo site. This is more of a technical “how I did it” as opposed to why I did it. Background After deciding to move to Hugo (after many years on Wordpress) it took some trial and error.…
There is a humble CSS Property that gets overlooked a lot, the humble background-repeat. I recently only learned that there a few options other than no-repeat or repeat available to this, and that they have really good browser support. New Keywords There are two CSS level 3 specification additions to the background-repeat property - space and round.…
One thing that I feel has been a blind spot for myself in terms of my development skill set is testing. That is, writing automated tests that help ensure that your code doesn’t break as you make changes moving forward. I’m still pretty early on in this journey, but wanted to share a few things that I’ve learned.…
Keep reading Getting Started With Front End Tests: a Mindset