📹 YouTube
Styling a Text Input (the fancy way)
In this video, Amy explains how to style a text field, where the label floats over the field and animates out of the way. This was the inspiration:
✍️ Blog
Career paths are very individual things. Companies create career ladders to suggest collections of competencies an employee might meet to reach a certain step, but even people with the same title may excel in different competencies on that rung and may need to work on others. A good manager of course can help someone identify what areas they can grow in and how. However, in my experience, even good managers don't always have the time necessary to monitor growth all the time or full transparency into their reports' work.
One strategy I've used to grow as an engineer is to keep a checklist of questions I ask myself at different points in my day to day work. I use the checklist to remind myself of areas of growth that I'm trying to focus on at any given point.
🖥️ Twitch
Elixir: Rebuilding a Ruby Gem as an Elixir Package (Part 4)
In this video, Erik continues to convert a Ruby Gem into an Elixir Package.
🔗 Links and Interestings
A collection of cool stuff the ZEAL team found interesting this week.
React Dev Tools Tutorial
Nice tut on using React dev tools. Great learning resource to provide folks who haven’t use React dev tools. ~Matti
The State of Frontend in 2020
A few key takeaways:
"React dominates the mind share today."
TypeScript is still polarizing.
People don't like Redux.
Common Mistakes with React Testing Library
Hi there 👋 I created React Testing Library because I wasn't satisfied with the testing landscape at the time. It expanded to DOM Testing Library and now we have Testing Library implementations (wrappers) for every popular JavaScript framework and testing tool that targets the DOM (and even some that don't).
As time has gone on, we've made some small changes to the API and we've discovered suboptimal patterns. Despite our efforts to document the "better way" to use the utilities we provide, I still see blog posts and tests written following these suboptimal patterns and I'd like to go through some of these, explain why they're not great and how you can improve your tests to avoid these pitfalls.