We developers often find ourselves faced with a problem that seems general enough and common enough that someone else could have already developed a solution for it. But what if an existing solution does not exist? I recently open sourced an ESLint plugin for OkCupid called eslint-plugin-i18n-lingui. The plugin is…

Background CAT Tool Complex single-page application in production. Codebase created over 2 years ago (legacy code). People who architected and wrote a big part of the code don’t work here anymore. Still a lot of feature requests. More than 1300 files. Over 230K lines of code. Has Flow already but not…

Great writeup! You make a lot of great points here like getting subject matter expert involved early on and QA-ing with figma I feel some of these important points are buried in the narrative and could be better emphasized if you made them a section heading. What if the post…

At OkCupid, we are building a new location search experience for users to set their own locations based on country, city name, and GPS. In contrast to the earlier iteration of the location search experience, data that enables the search is no longer statically loaded from the source code. The…

How productive are you with JavaScript? The coding interviews / coding challenges are designed to assess how productive someone can be with the language. In contrast to the algorithm whiteboarding interview, which assesses how the candidate go about solving a problem, or the architecture design interview, which assesses how the…

This a comprehensive guide for how to containerize your Mongo-Express-React-Node (MERN) app with Docker and deploy it to Amazon Web Service (AWS) Elastic Container Service (ECS). …

In this article, I will show you add a rich text editor based on Draft.js to your web app. This post is part of the Web Developer Playbook series, created to provide examples, best practice, and suggestions for designing and building web services. I will be using libraries from the…

JavaScript is not the language of choice to teach computer science, at least when I was in school. My university algorithms and data structures course was taught in Java. As JavaScript is becoming a more mainstream general purpose language and web developers are expected to have a strong foundation in…

This post is part of the Web Developer Playbook series, which are created to provide examples, best practice, and suggestions for designing and building web services. I will be using libraries from the JavaScript ecosystem (e.g., Node.js, React.js) in all my examples. What is a Slug? A slug is the last part of the…