React Router is a very popular library for handling URL routing in react applications. There has been a lot of controversy recently following the announcement of version 4. For some of our apps at 1stdibs.com, we’ve been following a much different approach to URL routing. In a Redux application, the store is the single source… post continues
It’s not news how popular React has become over the past few years. Many developers have praised such benefits as the speed that comes from the virtual DOM, the ease of developing an app as a set of reusable components and one-way data flow. What hasn’t been as clear-cut is which frameworks people have chosen… post continues
The front-end engineering team at 1stdibs used Backbone extensively starting in 2012 through 2015. When React began to rise in popularity we saw the benefits of React Components over Backbone views. Pretty soon we were using React exclusively for new code, and rewriting old Backbone views in React as needed. A year later, many parts… post continues
At 1stdibs, we’ve been migrating our Backbone-heavy front-end to React for several months. Different parts of our platform are being ported at different times, this leads to some teams being newer to React than others. Largely, we’ve been happy with how React has been performing on our high-traffic production site. Then, a doozy of a… post continues
Testing and code quality is, perhaps, not the most exciting topic to address when writing about JavaScript and client-side programming, but, it’s important. Whether you’re working in a large team, or by yourself, if you don’t test and write maintainable code, you will ship bugs. All good programmers strive to write high-quality and bug-free code.… post continues