Category Archives: frontend

frontend, programming

Yep, I’m still using redux

Leave a comment

Why I’m still using redux and how I’m currently using redux.

One thing I’ve heard a lot recently, when other frontend people have taken a look at my code, is the question “Are you still using redux? That’s so wonderfully quaint and old fashioned. When we threw it out and started using useState() hooks our life got so much better!” (or maybe just “once we started using hooks our life got so much better”).

And yep, I am still using redux, even though react hooks, which supposedly made redux obsolete and old-fashioned, arrived back in 2018 (which is also the same year I started doing frontend programming).

Continue reading Yep, I’m still using redux →

frontend, programming

Replacing react-datepicker with HTML input element of type date

Leave a comment

I replaced “react-datepicker” in two of my react applications, with the built-in <input type=”date”/> date picker, and the resulting reductions in bundle.js size were so significant I felt the need to blog about it.

Continue reading Replacing react-datepicker with HTML input element of type date →

frontend, java programming

A Java programmer’s guide to delivering webapp frontends

1 Comment

When I started investigating (googling) web frontends, I found tutorials for various frameworks and I found tutorials using node.js to deliver frontends to web browsers on localhost.

What I did not find, was something telling me how I should pack up and deliver the webapp frontend from my production system, so that comes here:

  1. A web application frontend  is a piece of javascript code, that builds its user interface by rebuilding the DOM tree of the webpage that loaded it
  2. The javascript needed for a webapp is packaged up as a big javascript file, typically named bundle.js,
  3. The initial HTML file references bundle.js
  4. The initial HTML file also contains an element that matches what the javascript code expects to be its start element (i.e. the point in the DOM of the parsed HTML file, where the javascript program starts rebuilding its own DOM)

Continue reading A Java programmer’s guide to delivering webapp frontends →