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3 Minutes with Kent

👋 Hi there! I"m Kent C. Dodds (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds). This is a (week)daily podcast where I give 3 minute thoughts about web development. You can subscribe on iTunes here: http://kcd.im/3-mins-itunes and on RSS here: http://kcd.im/3-mins-rss

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00:02:54

AMA: TypeScript or Babel?

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2017/02/09

I got a question (https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama/issues/247) on my AMA (http://kcd.im/ama) asking me about whether I prefer TypeScript (https://www.typescriptlang.org/) or Babel (http://babeljs.io/). I prefer Babel because it has better interop and a wider community. For more, listen to this 3 minute podcast :) See you all on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

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00:02:38

Change the pace of your day-to-day

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2017/01/19

I've recently been working on prettier-eslint (https://github.com/kentcdodds/prettier-eslint) and an accomanying cli (https://github.com/kentcdodds/prettier-eslint-cli) and it's been a lot of fun. I really think that doing this kind of thing can really change the pace of your day-to-day and encourage you to do the same! See you all on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

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00:02:51

Q&A: Deploying and Build Process

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/08/23

David asked me (https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama/issues/174) about my Deploy/Build process and it was easier to answer in audio form :) Links: What we can learn about testing from the wheel (https://github.com/kentcdodds/talks/tree/3bab77a70a42f15a6dc5519a8b964bb42efaab44#what-we-can-learn-about-testing-from-the-wheel) (my talk at Ignite Fluent 2016 (http://conferences.oreilly.com/fluent/javascript-html-us/public/schedule/detail/48271)) See you all on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

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00:02:58

Lodash Tooling and Optimizations

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/07/13

My co-worker asked me about why the babel-plugin-lodash (https://github.com/lodash/babel-plugin-lodash) module is useful and I explain that and the lodash-webpack-plugin (https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-webpack-plugin) too :-)

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00:02:59

Testing and Transpilation

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/06/24

I got a question (https://egghead.io/forums/lesson-discussion/topics/how-to-write-a-javascript-library-adding-es6-support#post-4659) about why we test our pre-transpiled code (or rather, instrument that code for coverage) rather than our post-transpiled code. So here's my answer. I reference babel-plugin-__coverage__ (https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-__coverage__) (use this with karma) and nyc (https://www.npmjs.com/package/nyc) (use this with tests run in node, like with mocha

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00:02:56

My Daughter, JavaScript Air, Pam Selle, and Diversity...

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/06/08

I had an enlightening experience today after hearing my 4 year old daughter Becca's response to watching some of the JavaScript Air (https://javascriptair.com) episode on webpack (https://jsair.io/webpack) today. Pam Selle (https://twitter.com/pamasaur) is a regular panelist.

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00:02:57

Q&A: Thoughts on TDD (Test Driven Development)

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/06/07

I was asked (https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama/issues/137) on my AMA (https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama) about my opinoin on Test Driven Development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development) (or TDD).

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00:02:48

Q&A: Aphrodite vs. Radium

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/06/06

Alex Booker (https://twitter.com/bookercodes) asks (https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama/issues/139): Hi, Kent I've seen you advocating Aphrodite on Twitter and noticed you're using it for the JavaScript Air site (https://github.com/javascriptair/site) Just wondering what drew you to Aphrodite over it's competitors (most notably Radium (https://github.com/FormidableLabs/radium)) I have a small amount of exposure to both and they seem to accomplish same thing but Radium is more mature Thanks P.S. I hope

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00:02:58

Nested Unit Tests: An Anti-Pattern

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/05/25

At first I was really bothered that AVA (http://npm.im/ava) didn't have support for nested tests, but now I consider nesting tests to be an anti-pattern. Here's an example of the kind of thing I mean (see this in a syntax-highlighted gist here (https://gist.github.com/kentcdodds/576c16d2069b3535aa4d7435082b186a)): Mocha with nesting (don't mind the actual tests, just imagine what this would be like with a larger test file): ```javascript import Customers from './Customers' import getMockCustomers

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00:02:22

OSS Licenses

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/05/25

Check out the Open Source Definition (https://opensource.org/osd). A license is required for your project to be considered Open Source. I recommend you choose a license (http://choosealicense.com/).

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00:02:21

Generators, Boilerplates, and Starter Kits

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/05/25

There are thousands of generators (https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=generator), boilerplates (https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=boilerplate), and starter kits (https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=starter+kit) available on npm right now. While these tools are super handy to get started, using them will bite you in the long run. I recommend that you make and use your own, and only use others as a reference.

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00:02:42

The value of an AMA

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/27

I was just thinking about my AMA and decided that I'd talk about how I've found it to be valuable and encourage you to start your own! Here's mine: https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama Here's Sindre's: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama

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00:02:51

Aphrodite vs BEM (CSS)

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/21

I was talking with my good friend Jamund Ferguson today and he mentioned that he just really likes the simplicity of using regular (non-preprocessed) CSS with BEM and here are some of the reasons I still prefer Aphrodite. I didn't mention in this that I also love that Aphrodite automatically vendor-prefixes everything for me as well. Hope this is helpful!

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00:02:59

JavaScript Air Stats celebration (100k downloads!! 🎉)

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/18

JavaScript Air (https://javascriptair.com) just passed 100,000 downloads on the audio podcast hosted by podbean.com (http://www.podbean.com/) 🎉 🎊 Things are going really well for the show so I wanted to share a bunch of stats about the show with you today. Here are the promised stats screenshots: http://jsair.io/stats-2016-04 (http://jsair.io/stats-2016-04) See you on twitter (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds)!

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00:02:58

Q&A: Aphrodite vs CSS Modules?

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/08

My friend Matt Winchester (https://twitter.com/mwinche) asked me (https://twitter.com/mwinche/status/718282311918362625) what I think of Aphrodite (https://github.com/Khan/aphrodite) compared to css-modules (https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules). Here's my answer. Here's an example of me migrating from CSS (processed with PostCSS (https://github.com/postcss/postcss)) to Aphrodite: https://github.com/javascriptair/site/commit/d8b8bf349f6c94a1d00539bb285240615baf5b7d

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00:02:10

Q&A: Recording audio/video for JavaScript Air

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/07

Adam Morgan (https://twitter.com/atommorgan) asked me (https://twitter.com/atommorgan/status/718091846124056577) how I record audio and video for JavaScript Air (https://javascriptair.com). Here's my answer. Links: How to start a podcast like JavaScript Air (https://youtu.be/peIHG9gJb08?list=PLV5CVI1eNcJi8sor_aQ2AzOeQ3On3suOr) Mostly Node (http://mostlynode.com/) podcast Heil PR-40 (http://www.amazon.com/PR-40-Dynamic-Studio-Recording-Microphone/dp/B000SOYOTQ) microphone Heil HB-1

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00:02:53

How JavaScript Code Coverage Works

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/06

Just a quick explanation of how tools instrument your JavaScript code to record and report code coverage. Common tools: istanbul (http://npm.im/istanbul) nyc (http://npm.im/nyc) with ava (http://npm.im/ava) are great for coverage of node-running tests (use jsdom (http://npm.im/jsdom) to mock a DOM like I do (http://kcd.im/react-ava-repo)). babel-plugin-__coverage__ (http://npm.im/babel-plugin-__coverage__) karma-coverage (http://npm.im/karma-coverage) with karma (http://npm.im/karma) and the babel

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00:01:35

Working from home: Snacks

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/05

Just a quick pro-tip for those of you working from home. Keep the snacks outside of arms reach! And drink lots of water!

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00:02:54

Automating JavaScript Air

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/05

I've automated a ton of stuff for JavaScript Air (https://javascriptair.com). There's definitely still more to do, but I'm pretty happy with how much is automated. You can find most of the automation stuff in the npm scripts (https://github.com/javascriptair/site/blob/master/package.json#L7-L38) in the package.json (https://github.com/javascriptair/site/blob/master/package.json) in the repo (https://github.com/javascriptair/site). Many of these reference scripts found in the other directory

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00:02:58

From vim to Atom + vim mode

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2016/04/05

For the last 24 hours I've been using Atom with vim mode and so far I'm liking it a lot. Here are the plugins I've installed so far: ava (https://atom.io/packages/ava) custom-invisibles (https://atom.io/packages/custom-invisibles) git-plus (https://atom.io/packages/git-plus) language-babel (https://atom.io/packages/language-babel) linter-eslint (https://atom.io/packages/linter-eslint) open-this (https://atom.io/packages/open-this) relative-numbers (https://atom.io/packages/relative-numbers) vim-mode

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