Mitch Gavan

I got my first taste of functional programming when getting started with React, since then I’ve gradually been learning more FP concepts and applying them to my code. It’s definitely become a popular topic in JavaScript as of late. In this post I’d like to go through some practical examples that can help make Redux reducers more declarative, often requiring less code. I’ll be using the functional library Ramda....

A while ago I decided that my next side-project would be to build a native app with React Native. After spending over six months developing a native app, I want to help spread the word about all of the similarities it shares with building web applications. I’d never built a native app but it had always interested me. There have been ways to build apps with web technologies for a...

We’re going to create a multiple choice quiz with React - without setting up any build configuration. This is now possible thanks to the Create React App project, which was recently created by the team at Facebook. Check out the demo here to see the quiz in action. Starting a new React project usually involves a lot of overhead that can be time consuming for anyone and straight...

There are new techniques and technologies being created for web developers everyday. That’s what makes working in this industry exciting, but also a bit daunting at times. No matter how you look at it, it’s important that we continue to grow and better our skills and products. Adjusting to new technologies is something that we developers have to do, but in general people don’t like change. So it’s important to...

I recently tackled the task of converting our traditional multi-page web app’s JavaScript over to ES6 format modules. After initially being overwhelmed with the amount of options out there, I did a bit of research and landed on a solution that worked well for our project. This setup consists of Browserify, Babel and Grunt. Along with a couple of Browserify plugins to generate multiple bundles ready for production. And as...