Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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My Favorite Technical Blogs and Mailing Lists
I keep up with what's happening in my field by following a number of blogs and an occasional email list. I don't read everything posted in all of these, but by scanning the top... Read more
November 4, 2020 -
JWT Authentication: Rethinking the Pattern
Part two of a two-part series. View part one. Stateless authentication with JSON Web Tokens — safely! As developers who build REST APIs, we are quite familiar with JSON Web To... Read more
October 20, 2020 -
Build React Apps with Styled Components: The Why and How of the Styled-Components Library
React is a library that helps developers approach user interface (UI) development with the single-responsibility principle in mind, while building reusable, encapsulated compon... Read more
October 8, 2020 -
JWT Authentication: How Does it Work?
Part one of a two-part series. A REST API is a wonderful way to expose application data to a wide variety of clients. Anything that can speak HTTP can communicate with a REST A... Read more
August 21, 2020 -
Accessibility Testing Tips for Beginners
If you’re new to testing accessibility features like I was, it can feel like an amorphous blob that you’ve been tasked with putting into organized boxes. There are multiple fini... Read more
July 23, 2020 -
Build a useKeypress Hook in React
One of the great patterns to come out of React 16.8 is composable hooks. Using React's built-in hooks such as useState and useEffect, we can encapsulate and modularize bits of ... Read more
July 1, 2020
