Written by Leon Pahole
•Programmers disagree on many things, but one thing we can all get behind is that error handling is important. This blog post showcases how I handle frontend errors, associated with API calls, in a way that is readable, maintainable, and easy to use.
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•In this blog post I present a simple layered structure that I use on the front-end to simplify and streamline the communication with the server and all the processes behind it.
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•JavaScript's ES modules are a great way to organize code into separate files and keep the code clean. I have noticed however that as projects get larger, it gets harder and harder to keep mental track of the code and assign proper names to identifiers. In this blog post, I present TypeScript namespaces as one of the solutions to this problem.
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•There's a lot of conflicting information about code comments in programming communities. Some people believe in writing comments as much as possible, while others advocate for code that is self-documenting and thus renders comments almost useless. In this blog post I lay out my past experiences with comments and how these experiences shaped my current approach to writing clear and understandable code.
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•Enums are a great way to restrict values of variables to a limited set of chosen constants. This makes the code more readable and less error-prone, as we no longer need to use magic numbers. However, enums can also cause our code to become hard to read and maintain as our codebase expands. In this blog post I describe how I solve these concerns in TypeScript.
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