If you are using react and test your components (you should!), then you are probably using the Testing Library. Testing helps to be confident that your components work as expected — especially in corner cases that are harder to test manually. The learning curve for a library can be steep, but doesn't have to!
Even with fast internet speeds, one key metric for improving initial page load times for websites or web apps is reducing the data transmitted over the wire. While you can optimize all kinds of assets, like styles and images, I want to focus on the size of the JavaScript bundles. Code size has an impact on download duration, but also on parsing and JavaScript execution. This can be measured as Total Blocking Time (TBT) or First Input Delay (FID), a metric suggested by Google to measure page performances as part of the Web Vitals.
Welcome to the Blog of Tentacle Labs! Recently we got inspired by a post on the StackOverflow blog. It highlights how developers benefit from expanding their skill of writing text, not just source code. One point got us hooked in particular: "if you can't teach it, then you don't really know it."
