Local mutations are all right
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For example, mutating a reducer function's accumulator array can be better than religiously avoiding mutations and returning only new arrays from the reducer.
Clean code
4 + 1 wrapping styles for Markdown prose and code comments
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A paragraph per line, a sentence per line, or hard wrapping at e.g. 80 characters? These days I prefer a fourth option: semantic line breaks.
Site-specific components in a (React) multi-site
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A multi-site React project has likely two kinds of components: common components and site-specific components. There are a few ways to handle site-specific logic in common components.
Locality of Behavior / Co-location
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These two similar principles state that the behavior of code should be obvious on inspection and that code should be located where it's relevant.
Switch statements: default doesn't have to be the last case
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Non-last default cases are confusing
but perfectly valid.
Sometimes it makes sense to place them at the beginning or in the middle.