. May our love be like a sunset walk, Arranged in steps and saccades, And arcing marble paths. I stop you at a tree that holds the sky, Shimmering like never before. We nestle in the spectacle Of soft light clattering through its leaves. I ask you for your hand and…
. Six months into a graduate program at a music conservatory in Ohio, I made the hardest decision of my life. I had spent the previous 12 years training to become a professional cellist. It was the only thing I had ever known. All of my friends were classical musicians. Some…
. In this post, we'll be refactoring React Router's "huge apps" example, using Webpack's bundle-loader to eliminate nearly all of the example's code-splitting boilerplate, and addressing how to use this technique in a project with universal rendering. This post assumes you have experience with React, React Router, Babel/ES6, and Webpack.…
. Disclaimer: these are not full-featured promises and don't follow any official promises spec. However, the concepts are the same, and it helps explain what is going on behind the scenes. This method is intended to be especially concise and relatively easy to understand (though still quite challenging). What does it…
. A couple of months ago, I learned React by writing a game called Flip. Since then, React and the Flux architecture have attracted a lot of attention in the web developer community. Because of React's superior DOM performance, and the scalable nature of Flux’s one-directional data flow, many in…
. Building upon my experience with the ReactJS Slide Puzzle, I thought I'd take the concept of a React-based game one step further. Flip is not very practical, and uses a lot of potentially buggy CSS3 and ES5 methods, but I mean, it's just a game. Besides, it shows some of…