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The Call Kent Podcast

The Call Kent podcast is a regular podcast where you call in with a question and Kent answers. Call in with your questions right from your web browser with any device at https://kentcdodds.com/call

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6:28

How are redux thunks implementation details?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/02/15

The official Redux recommendation is to avoid testing thunks in isolation and instead opt for integration testing with redux connected components. The main reason given is that thunks are considered implementation details.Why are thunks considered implementation details? In the context of async thunks in RTK can you give examples of how testing an async thunk might lead to false negatives and false positives in our tests? What are your opinions on testing thunks in isolation that

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5:31

What makes a good react js developer?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/02/14

Useffect needs always dependencies though we only perform that action once say for example api call, do we really need dependency for single call as well?Use memo and use callback seems in which specific scenarios we use, cause otherwise we might endup with lot of useless usememo and usecallbacks.Apart from this, what you want to suggest in general to make me a good react developer in terms of debugging and developing faster and understanding well. Doing personal projects, my mistakes are I

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3:48

AWS Job Opportunity

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/02/06

Looking to find my people in the AWS world that want to help others make some money without exploiting anyone.AWS Job Opportunity

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3:33

Playwright support

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/02/02

Where can I find your courses on Playwright and how are you involved in the community?PlaywrightPlaywright DiscussionsPlaywright DiscordPlaywright support

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8:30

Tips for creating a npm package (stack-supporting)

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/01/31

In order to understand a little more about your process of creating and maintaining a npm package, three questions were asked, to know the stack used, what support for them normally and whether or not there is a template that you can share with more.kcd-scriptsgenerator-kcd-ossTips for creating a npm package (stack-supporting)

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3:27

How close should a hook be to its usage?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/01/12

Transcript: Key Kent! Big fan since I started learning React many moons ago! My name is Asier and I hope you're having a good day. My question is about React custom hooks and your opinion on the following. Imagine there is one parent component in charge of rendering two children components. This parent component is using a custom hook to retrieve some relevant data, let's say that it receives the user name and the date of birth for instance. The first child component requires a prop for the

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3:08

What's your opinion on atomic design?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2023/01/03

Atomic Web Design by Brad FrostWhat's your opinion on atomic design?

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3:43

How to handle file uploads in Remix?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/16

Hi Kent!How would you handle file uploads in Remix? For example, the avatar for a user's profile. Or a PDF document?unstable_parseMultipartFormDataBrowser File APIs3 exampleCloudinary exampleHow to handle file uploads in Remix?

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5:37

Tailwind class overriding

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/15

It can be difficult to override tailwind classes with more tailwind classes because their precedence is based on style sheet order not order you apply them. How do you go about solving the problem?Tailwind class overriding

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4:25

How do you deal with partial types?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/14

Fully typed apps are the correct approach. Let's say your API backend returns a 'full' type (of a Workshop type with 8 fields for example), and, secondly, a list of Workshops but this time only with a 'name' field. In the frontend, you have a 'full view', a 'list of workshops view' (showing only the name of each) and a 'preview view' of a Workshop which uses 3 of its 8 fields. How do you describe these types in the app and at the interfaces between the frontend and backend?How do you deal

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5:52

The "remix" testing methodology

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/14

Do you plan to update the testing course to add/update content to teach the "remix testing" methodology? I see you folks are using Playwright quite extensively even if it adds more time to execute. I'm very curious to know your "thought process" on these kinds of decisionsThe "remix" testing methodology

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4:25

How to handle action matching no intent?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/12

Hi Kent its Jan,What do you do in your action function in Remix for a page with multiple forms, if no intent matches?Let's say you have a page with two forms, one for deleting an entity and one for duplicating it. So the page has two forms each with a button of type submit, one with an intent of delete and one of with an intent of duplicate.Now what do you do if the request to that action function contains form data with neither intent?In Ryan's Remix single, where he shows how to handle

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4:04

Latest practical CSS techniques (use Tailwind)

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/09

More info at the ever evolving ways to deal with CSS and what are Kent's preferred ways of handling CSSLatest practical CSS techniques (use Tailwind)

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8:01

Middleware is an antipattern

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/12/01

Question regarding the Express.js pipeline Kent takes when writing backend apps that differs form the conventional router->middleware->controller and treats the controller itself as middlewareMiddleware is an antipattern

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3:57

How to test semantic HTML tables?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/11/30

I'm looking into testing tables with testing library and was wondering, how would you approach testing a semantic HTML table with React testing library?I found this issue (https://github.com/testing-library/dom-testing-library/issues/583#issuecomment-997347372) on Github, but there seems to be no definitive answer.screen.logTestingPlaygroundURL()Testing PlaygroundThe Accessibility paneThanks a lot!How to test semantic HTML tables?

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2:06

Appreciation

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/11/21

Quality contents, quality contribution to React ecosystem.Appreciation

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3:26

Testing Code in service files and NGXS Store files

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/11/11

Is it important to test the code in service files and in ngxs store files in angular? I was under the assumption that testing the component files were standard and I have been doing the same when using angular testing libraryMSWTesting Code in service files and NGXS Store files

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4:23

Is using md5 as key an anti-pattern in react?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/11/10

can i use the md5 checksum of the json data as key for each row in react? so context here is that i have a bunch of rows to show, and they dont have an id, and i can't use index as their order may change. so i am using the md5 of the JSON.stringify of the rows data. but i am thinking that calculating the md5 or sha1 maybe a thing which shouldn't happen in the UI render cycle, specially cause the render can happen many times as things in the top change?Is using md5 as key an anti-pattern in

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3:46

Why do you take short breaks when coding?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/11/09

When you do your live streams, you take breaks regularly. Why do you do that? What's the science behind it? And what do you do during those breaks to make them as effective as possible?Centered (use the coupon code EPICFLOW for 50% off the first year of premium).Why do you take short breaks when coding?

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4:08

Is addEventListener OK again?

The Call Kent Podcast ·

2022/11/04

addEventListener is usually frowned upon as an anti-pattern in the React world. Will this still be the case with Remix? What about in the framework-agnostic future of Remix?Is addEventListener OK again?

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