Archive - Limestack by John Ayeni

Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It Fast

Throughout my career, I’ve often heard variations of the phrase "Make it Work, Make it Right, Make it Fast." as being an approach for building software.

Oct 31, 2024 •

August 2024

Improving Static Typing Reliability for Client Apps

When Angular 2 was released in 2016, the Angular development team chose TypeScript as the main development language for the framework.

Aug 31, 2024 •

July 2024

What are reflows in browser rendering and why should they be avoided?

“Reflows” also known as Layout recalculations happen when a Layout attribute of an element in the DOM changes hence the browser must recalculate how…

Jul 31, 2024 •

June 2024

Automating code changes with codemods

What is a codemod?

Jun 30, 2024 •

April 2024

Can't center a div using CSS? Here are 3 different ways you can do so

As a web engineer, there is an excellent chance you have heard or even delivered the age-old joke about how hard it is to center an HTML element using…

Apr 30, 2024 •

March 2024

Using mocked HTTP API responses to speed up the development of client applications

One of the usual causes of delays for delivery as a Frontend engineer is usually pending work from backend services.

Mar 31, 2024 •

February 2024

Why should you write code to automate testing your application code?

Writing code to automate testing for the code of your application is often considered standard practice for more established tech organizations and is…

Feb 29, 2024 •

January 2024

Taking your application global with translations

Before we dive into anything, let us start with a scenario.

Jan 31, 2024 •

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