Tooling

Build tools, monorepos, Node internals. The unglamorous rig underneath the apps.

Dec 30, 202112 min readNadia Makarevich
Advanced typescript for React developers - discriminated unions
Exploring how to discriminate unions properly and how this pattern can be useful for React developers' everyday professional life.
React Tooling
Dec 20, 20219 min readNadia Makarevich
Advanced typescript for React developers - part 3
Learning while coding what is the purpose of exhaustiveness checking, how the narrowing of types works and when typescript enums could be useful.
React Tooling
Dec 8, 202115 min readNadia Makarevich
Advanced typescript for React developers
Diving into advanced typescript concepts and understanding how and why we need things like type guards, keyof, typeof, is, as const and indexed types.
React Tooling
Nov 25, 20219 min readNadia Makarevich
Typescript generics for React developers
Looking into why we need generics in Typescript, and how to use them to develop re-usable React components. And as a bonus: the secret of React hooks 😉
React Tooling
Apr 18, 20214 min readNadia Makarevich
Custom eslint rules + typescript monorepo = ❤️
A simple trick that allows you to write in typescript and consume right away custom eslint rules. No compilation, build or publish/link step, just write code and use it!
Tooling
Apr 5, 20215 min readNadia Makarevich
Three simple tricks to speed up yarn install
Those tricks can speed up your yarn install by up to 50%
Tooling
Feb 8, 202112 min readNadia Makarevich
Learning by fixing: Node.js, modules and packages
Learn how Node resolves modules and deals with packages by pretending to be a detective and debugging a mysterious build failure
Tooling
Jun 11, 202011 min readNadia Makarevich
webpack and yarn magic against duplicates in bundles
This page describes the theory and some technical details behind the webpack-deduplication-plugin plugin, which helped us reduce javascript size in Jira by ~10%.
Tooling