A few months ago I was cleaning up an old node codebase, the endpoint was using promises to call several other API endpoints on the network, waiting for the response on all calls, and then building a JSON response to the client. While I was doing the refactor and cleaning up the code, I found some optimizations I'd like to share in this post. Improving readability In order to improve code readability and therefore lowering the maintenance cost for this service, I was introducing async/await to Continue reading

Over the last 12 years I've been building Single Web Applications (SPAs). I've seen how the CSS landscape has changed, from the introduction of SASS, BEM, Bootstrap like frameworks, css modules, style components, etc. All of them trying to bring some sanity to the CSS madness! Definately some improvements over the years, but still all of these solution fail at some point. In the summer of 2018, I learned about a new utility framework called tailwind, the approach is completely different from Continue reading

A few days ago I had to implement a sticky banner at work, at first I thought it would be a simple task but it took me quite some time to figure everything out. On the bright side, I've learned a few new things about CSS in the process. Here are the requirements: The component might be present sometimes depending on some custom logic on the backend. When present, it had to push all the content down and when closed by the user, it had to disappear with a slide up animation. Effectively animating Continue reading