If you are using a dictionary or map in TypeScript you may want to know how many elements are mapped. This can be done with Object.Entries(myMappedObject).length. However, the default Typescript configuration won’t let use this latest function because it’s only available in EcmaScript 2017. To get access to it, you need to change the tsconfig.json. […]
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New Book Released
As every year since the last five years, I am compiling all relevant blog articles I wrote during the year, format and review all of them and send them to be proofread by someone way better than me! This year, I was able to accomplish it few weeks before Christmas. It is available right now […]
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How to Have A Hook Before a Redux Store Notify its Subscriber with TypeScript
This is a long title but it says all. Redux is well known to function calling other functions with the capability of getting into the pipeline easily. For example, it’s a defined pattern to create a middleware if you want to inject some code in the pipeline between the time an action is dispatched and […]
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Redux Middleware: Calling next or dispatch?
Redux offers many ways to handle the flow of information in your system. One tool in the toolbox is using Middleware. I already discussed how we can leverage Middleware to do the heavy lifting instead of action creators. In this article, we will look at one question that you may stumble which is should I […]
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React and Redux without ActionCreator
Before digging into the main topic of not using action creator, let me establish some contexts. There is nothing white or black and this is even truer in regards to anything touching JavaScript these days. The official documentation of Redux talks about action creator but is very unopinionated about how the full flow should me. […]
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This article will be pretty slim but can be helpful for more than just myself so I am sharing. Here are some commands available with NPM that you may not know that can be useful. To know packages that are installed globally: To know where the packages are installed. It gives the global location if […]
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