Hi there! I'm Kenneth. I build apps then I write about the experience. All articles are my own personal thoughts and opinions.
When defining application components, a good strategy is to split by functionality. In a blogging application, we'll have a component to represent the WYSIWYG editor then, another to hold the publish settings. In this particular example, the publish ...
In this post, I'll show you how to implement feature management on your React applications. Feature management is the way to control which features are available based on certain scenarios. Why Do Feature Management? Here are some scenarios where con...
When I create content, I start off with a topic. Then, I create different content pieces revolving around that topic targeting different platforms like Hashnode, Dev.to, or Twitter. In fact, I recently Tweeted about this, that content creation nowada...
In this post, we'll go through the process of creating an API built using Express and MongoDB. We'll cover the ff. steps: Setting up MongoDB Creating an Express application Optimizing your Express routes Handling errors Let's start! Setting up Mong...
In a React + React Router environment, routing configuration is a one-to-one mapping between a route and that route's display elements. Here's a basic example: <Route exact path='/' component={Home} /> <Route exact path='/drafts' component={DraftList...
When designing an application, you usually start with the business processes involved. Then, you extract the data models involved and map out the respective components/services. It's quite a simplified explanation but, you get what I mean! As part of...
In this post, I'll talk about my strategy for breaking down user stories into smaller tasks. What's a User Story? Before we start, let's define what user stories are. A user story is an informal, natural language description of a software system feat...
In this post, I'll walk you through how to implement some of the most common web application features. For each feature, we'll show the ff. three details: A real-world example as well as a description of the main challenges for the feature A list of...
If I can go back 5 years and meet my younger self, I'd give him one piece of advice. Your professional growth can happen outside of work. Looking back, I really believe that this mindset would've helped my younger self a lot. Let me tell you why. T...