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Defensive API Handling

Defensive API Handling

On a recent client project, we built a form that submitted to a third-party registration service. Easy-peasy, right? What followed was a comical series of incidents that served as an excellent lesson in defensive API handling.

Code Linting for Web Designers

Code Linting for Web Designers

You may have heard that you should be “linting” your code. What does that mean? Why would you want to do it?

How to Automatically Update Your JavaScript Dependencies

How to Automatically Update Your JavaScript Dependencies

One frustrating aspect of the modern JavaScript ecosystem is keeping all your dependencies up to date. Thankfully, there are automated tools that can handle this thankless task for you.

Squashing Your Pull Requests

Squashing Your Pull Requests

Most pull requests should squash down to a single commit with a well-written message explaining why a change is happening.

How to Distribute a Pattern Library as an npm Package from a Private Git Repo

How to Distribute a Pattern Library as an npm Package from a Private Git Repo

So you’ve got a pattern library: Congratulations! The next step is making it possible for other people to use those patterns. You could simply provide download links for the CSS and other assets, but then your users can’t easily get any updates to the pattern library. Instead, you