TILs - Fueling Curiosity, One Insight at a Time

At Codemancers, we believe every day is an opportunity to grow. This section is where our team shares bite-sized discoveries, technical breakthroughs and fascinating nuggets of wisdom we've stumbled upon in our work.

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Revath
Never Wrap a component with HOC inside the render method. This will cause numerous unmount and mount of same component on each render.
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Atul
Vim tip - Hitting g Ctrl-g will show you some tech info about the current file, like number of words or how many bytes it has
-- Col 1 of 25; Line 184 of 184; Word 471 of 472; Byte 4266 of 4291
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Atul
In ssh url git@github.com:code-mancers/engineering-blog.git git is the user on github.com server. Even ssh://code-mancers@github.com/engineering-blog.git is a valid git url since git tries to clone it but since there is no code-mancers user on github hence git is not able to clone it.
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Emil
You can use https://www.fullstory.com to record user sessions and play back interactions. UX designers use this tool to understand how to improve their design.
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Harshwardhan
always use default props while writing react component, reduces the number of unexpected bugs which are hard to reproduce.
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Manu
a tags without an href are not links, they are placeholders for links. Also, capybara only click on links which have the href attribute.
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Manu
Rspec's subject is a special variable that refers to the object being tested. It's instantiated implicitly but can also be done explicitly. Handy to be used with shoulda matchers.
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Emil
In Tmux, prefix+t shows the current time in big font size

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