Recent articles in react (page 1 of 1)

1. Sep 29, 2025 An Experiment with AI Assisted Web Development

   By forcing it to take small steps forward, reading every line of code, and acting as the "expert guardrails", I was able to make rapid progress towards a complete implementation of the app with many nice details that I hadn't considered.

2. Dec 14, 2023 Help! Storybook is eating all our tests!

   Storybook is a visual workshop for developing, composing and documenting UI components in isolation. For many years it’s been a favoured tool by Design System teams. But in recent years, Storybook has sneakily grown into a very powerful and versatile automated testing tool as well! In this talk, I show how Storybook has disrupted the traditional Test Pyramid at Culture Amp and enabled us to test much more with much less code and effort than ever before.

3. Sep 25, 2023 useEffect vs useLayoutEffect and server-side rendering

   Why React prints an ugly warning when you call useLayoutEffect on the server, and what to do about it.

4. Jan 14, 2022 Micro Front Ends, Strategy, and Blueberry Muffins

   As the director of Culture Amp's large-and-growing front end engineering practice, my biggest challenge in the past year was to communicate a coherent strategy that those 60+ engineers could understand and get behind. The solution was blueberry muffins. 🫐

5. Feb 22, 2021 Ally Beaton looks back on two years in the Kaizen design system

   On her second-last day as Culture Amp's tech lead for the Kaizen design system, Ally Beaton joined me to look back on two years of progress in our React component library.