Kyle Shevlin

I’m going to start this post with what will appear to be a tangent. I assure you, it’s not.

My wife, wonderful as she is, is not a very technical person. She is very caring, though, and will often listen to me talk about the technical things I am working … Read More

I want to say this up front, I did not intend to do this. I never had a plan to get a streak of commits going. Frankly, I noticed that I had done it naturally for a few weeks and decided to keep it up. Now it’s kind of at … Read More

Recently at an interview I was asked to write a custom component from scratch with vanilla JavaScript. I thought I’d take a few minutes to write part of that code for you. It’s not as scary as it might seem at first.

There are three basic parts to any DOM … Read More

A few days ago, I came across a tweet by Stephanie Hurlbut, a software engineer and entrepreneur who uses her influence to help other engineers out. Allow me to share that tweet with you:

If you would be up for giving someone a mock typical

Occasionally I see someone ask, “What’s the best way to make bar charts with React? Are there any great libraries?” I often respond with, “Why not build it with React yourself?”

React’s one-way data binding model is perfect for creating simple data visualizations from scratch and I want to show … Read More

My most recent work project was an interesting challenge. I built an app (actually 2 Electron apps supporting 3 React apps communicating through WebSockets) that allowed a user (actually 4 simultaneous users) to look at an array of stories related to sea ports, select one, have a detail component pop … Read More

This morning I released ShevyJS into the wild. ShevyJS is a remake of Shevy for CSS-in-JS styling.

If you’re new to the concept of CSS-in-JS, you can find some great resources on the topic including this massive repo. In a nutshell, CSS-in-JS is the task of adding … Read More

This won’t be a very long, nor deep, post. As I was working on some code this afternoon, a thought occurred to me. I love React. I really do. I find it so pleasant to work in React, and I can’t always describe why. However, I have at least one … Read More

Recently, I ran a poll on Twitter asking web developers what was most important to them. Here’s a look at the results.

What's more important to you as a web developer? #webdevelopment #webdev #javascript

— Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin) February 22, 2017 … Read More

If you’re using Redux with React, you are probably familiar with the concept of container and presentational components. If you are, you can skip ahead to the section Renderless Components. If you’re not, let me give you a very brief description of each.

The purpose of a “container … Read More