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I spent a lot of my career trying to find roles where I didn't have to deal with people. A lot of time in startups and small businesses, where my job was to just build. At a certai…

It definitely requires more work. If you're starting from scratch, you need to either read the API documentation or makes calls to the API to understand the data you're getting bac…

I didn't choose to adopt GraphQL, but I joined a company where an ex-developer had integrated into what was at that point a core codebase. They didn't add it due to any particular …

Hacker News has a pretty well educated community, so it's not surprising that the general response seems to be that this was an obvious outcome. But this story is not unique to thi…

From a historical perspective your reservation is totally fair. But I think the issue is a lot more complex than just looking at the impact automation has had in the past. Here are…

This is a complaint I've heard often about React, and usually it's by someone that's never actually tried it (myself included before I first used it). But it's a visceral response.…

The sanctioned way forward for React is Flow. It's not as comprehensive as TypeScript, but there's no compilation required - Flow annotations just get stripped out. As of a couple …

Coming from a startup background: 1. Senior people leaving (as has been said by pretty much everyone else in this thread). 2. Not having a clearly defined problem to solve, or a we…

This is something that tripped me up when I first started learning Redux too, and it would be great if there were more articles about what to do with the bits that don't really fit…