· react
You really, really, really don't need an effect! I swear!
Before you write another useEffect, ask one question: is this syncing with an external system? If not, there's a better way.
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Javascript Related articles written by Neciu Dan
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· react10 React tips I wish someone had told me before I mass-produced bugs
After running a 30-day React deep-dive, these are the 10 patterns that changed how I write components, manage state, and think about performance.
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· reactBuild your own shimmer skeleton that never goes out of sync
Skeleton screens break every time you touch the UI. Here's how to build one that reads the DOM and keeps itself in sync automatically.
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· reactStart naming your useEffect functions, you will thank me later
I started naming my useEffect functions about a year ago. It changed how I read components, how I debug them, and eventually how I structure them.
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A tech breakdown of Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets
Benefits and drawbacks of Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets, and when its better to use ach protocol based on your situation.
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· securityHow to steal npm publish tokens by opening GitHub issues
A chain of vulnerabilities and pretty clever attack strategies led to the compromise of the Cline CLI. Let me explain what happened and what you can do to protect yourself.
🎙️ Latest Podcast Episodes
Explore conversations with senior engineers about scaling applications, teams, and careers.
Episode 30
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Tyler Benfield, Staff Software Engineer at Prisma, to go deep on database performance. Tyler's path into databases started at Penske Racing, writing trackside software for NASCAR pit stops, and eventually led him into query optimization, connection pooling, and building Prisma Postgres from scratch. From the most common ORM anti-patterns to scaling Postgres on bare metal with memory snapshots, this is the database conversation most frontend developers never get.
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Episode 29
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Corbin Crutchley — lead maintainer of TanStack Form, Microsoft MVP, VP of Engineering, and author of a free book that teaches React, Angular, and Vue simultaneously — to dig into what it actually means to maintain a library that gets a million downloads a week. Corbin covers the origin of TanStack Form, why versioning is a social contract, what nearly made him quit open source, and the surprisingly non-technical path that got him into a VP role.
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Episode 28
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Andrey Sitnik — creator of PostCSS, AutoPrefixer, and Browserslist, and Lead Engineer at Evil Martians — to explore how one developer became responsible for 0.7% of all npm downloads. Andrey shares the discrimination story that drove AutoPrefixer, the open pledge that forced PostCSS 8 to ship, and why the Mythical Man-Month applies directly to LLM agent coordination.
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Episode 27
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Aurora Scharff — Senior Consultant at Creon Consulting, Microsoft MVP in Web Technologies, and React Certifications Lead at certificates.dev — to explore the real mental model shift required to understand React Server Components. Aurora shares her path from Robotics to frontend, what it was like building a controller UI for Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog in React, and why the ecosystem finally feels like it's stabilizing.
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