A bunch of cool things and neat little tips

You know how some mornings you wake up, jump out of bed, and you're full of piss and vinegar and ready to take on the world?

And other days you wake up and it's like you got hit by a cement truck rolling down the hill with no brakes?

That.

I was going to write today about either Constate and how much I love it for state management, especially with hooks, or about building webapps with Gatsby.

But writing feels a lot like dragging barbed wire through my brain right now, so here's a 2-hour livecoding session instead. We worked on building a webapp with Gatsby and using Constate for state management.

Play: YouTube video

We continue tonight, and on Wednesday, you get an article about it. Deal?

Tips & tricks I learned this week

Let's try a new section for these wonderful Monday emails. Every day, I try to write 200 words about something new I learned. The cute little posts go on to live or die on Twitter and Facebook.

But you're my favorite, so I should share them here as well.

  1. An important lesson about JavaScript testing. You really really have to make sure tests don't run in PhantomJS by accident.
  4. Novelty makes teaching and sharing easy. Preserving that enthusiasm as a grizzled veteran ain't easy

A few cool things

Here's a bunch of cool things I discovered this week.