InPleo EngineeringbyJack Taylor·Apr 14, 2023Learning to Be a Great Mentor: 3 Lessons from the Pleo Mentorship ProgrammeOver the last few months, I’ve been taking part in an engineering mentorship programme at Pleo as a mentor. The mentor/mentee relationship…
Jack Taylor·Jun 22, 2022Spot the Bug: To Do, ConditionallyIn this instalment of Spot the Bug, we have a ToDoList component which takes an array of items and renders them in a list. However, there’s…
Jack Taylor·Jun 20, 2022Spot the Bug: Function CurryIn this instalment of ‘Spot the Bug’, we have a simple React toggle component which switches between active and inactive when clicked…
InBetter ProgrammingbyJack Taylor·Jul 13, 2021Can Owning a Puppy Make You a Better Developer?OK, bear with me on this one…A response icon2A response icon2
InBetter ProgrammingbyJack Taylor·May 12, 2021Want to Write Readable Code? Remember These 5 RulesMake your code the best version of itselfA response icon2A response icon2
InBetter ProgrammingbyJack Taylor·Apr 20, 2021Up Your React Game With Compound ComponentsBuild awesome UIs in your React appsA response icon3A response icon3
InBetter ProgrammingbyJack Taylor·Apr 14, 2021Two ES2020 Features You Should Know AboutA deep dive into optional chaining and the nullish coalescing operator
InBetter ProgrammingbyJack Taylor·Apr 12, 2021Don’t Use If-Else and Switch in JavaScript, Use Object LiteralsWrite better conditionals in JavaScript with object literalsA response icon80A response icon80
InBetter ProgrammingbyJack Taylor·Feb 19, 2021Stop Lying to React About Missing DependenciesKnow how useEffect works to avoid lint warnings and infinite loopsA response icon12A response icon12
InJavaScript in Plain EnglishbyJack Taylor·Feb 9, 20216 Things I’ve Learnt as a Tech LeadSharing some insights from the past 9 monthsA response icon2A response icon2
