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Making A Slider With RxJS and React

→Repo←Reactive Extensions have been around for a while now. I can find articles and tutorials on the topic starting in 2010. Netflix uses Rx to manage their many asynchronous event streams and has been for a few years now. Despite it’s growing fame and use, I haven’t heard much about it. No one I’ve met personally uses it in production. In terms of front end web development, there are plenty of other JavaScript frameworks an libraries in use and no immediate need to branch out for many companies.

Niole NelsonOct 25, 2015

How To Become A Web Developer

So, you want to become a web developer. The salary is nice. You make cool things. You can learn it for free on the internet. That’s it! It…’s decided. All you have to do now is teach yourself to code. When I started learning JavaScript I had this fantastical impression of the web developer as a kind of genius craftsman. The web developer seemed to me like the carpenter of the modern age. She can build a house from scratch and put all the bells and whistles on it that she desires. And it’s totally possible of course, given enough time.

Niole NelsonNov 1, 2015

Storing State With the Rx.Subject

→Repo←When I first read about Rx (in my case, RxJS), I had a hard time with Observables, Observers, keeping them straight, what do they do, et c, et c. Admittedly, I really haven’t even toyed with RxJS that much. I have however, read about it a lot, always feeling like I’m just about to understand what’s really going on. ¶ If data streams are like arrays, well the rest must be easy peasy. Since I’ve recently gotten a tiny, but seemingly solid grasp on the Observables and Observers, I’ve moved onto…

Niole NelsonNov 1, 2015

Structuring Apps With React Mixins: leaving the view to the component

React mixins. They’re disappearing with ES6. Is this bad? I often felt that React gave the mixin too much functionality and power. While…the mixin assumes the context of the component it’s bound it, it has its own lifecycle methods. To give something that doesn’t have its own context the ability set state in the component it’s attached to sounds like a bad idea, to me. ¶ Mixins As Mediators ¶ I however, have used React mixins to manage my application’s state when working with stores in the Flux architecture. It’s a popular idea. Putting code with such important functionality as state management, of a separate component…

Niole NelsonOct 13, 2015

Niole NelsonOct 4, 20153 min read

Merge Sort Visualization! with d3 and JavaScript

Now I truly know the difference between O(n^2) and O(nlogn). My merge sort visualization is so much faster than my insertion sort visualization, as a matter of fact, the bigger the number of data points being sorted, the faster merge sort is…

Niole NelsonOct 1, 20152 min read

Insertion Sort Visualization: d3 and JS

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When I learned how to do sorts, I did it with Python. Insertion sort was a particular favorite of mine. It was especially easy for me to visualize.

Niole NelsonOct 1, 20153 min read

Debounce!

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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about a nightmarish interview I had a while back with Verdigris: a very cool startup that is developing a tool (set of tools?) for monitoring the electricity flow in buildings. The take home challenge for the second round was challenging…

Niole NelsonSep 22, 20152 min read

Accidental Event Queue

The d3 and React vis that I talked about in a previous post (https://github.com/niole/EventBubbles) was prompted by a desire to model events as they bubble unmitigated through the DOM. I thought it would be cool to watch and would be a quick way to get some dynamically changing data. Yes…

Niole NelsonSep 21, 20152 min read

Reactive d3 visualizations with React?

I recently set out to understand what it truly means to do reactive programming. React.js has ‘react’ in the name and with d3.js being the hotness that it is, I decided to create a reactive visualization with the two.

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