Ben's Blog

Stepper: React's useImperativeHandle 14 Dec 2024

State encapsulation is pretty good in React: one way data binding via props and callbacks for notifying of changing events. But how do I change the state of a component from outside it’s declaration?

Node, TLS, and DNS 12 Dec 2024

Node presents different problems when using local domain names.

Reverse Proxy With Caddy 10 Dec 2024

I’ve never set up a reverse proxy before.

Not Your Parent's Software 07 Sep 2024

ONCE is a great example of software we can own, built for the modern world.

Graphql Is Not Expressive 04 Sep 2024

It has only two categories of inquiry

Eventing Like React 03 Sep 2024

I have a previous article about using React to mirror DOM eventing style

React Eventing Like The Dom 05 Aug 2024

React doesn’t have a builtin eventing system like the browser does, but you can model your components after it.

JSX: Writing the Language To Meet You 26 Jul 2024

Like LISP, JSX allows html to be written “up” to easily define new concepts.

Very Semantic Html 20 Jul 2024

Semantic HTML can be a very charged topic. A quick search

Description Of Wonka Operators 15 Jul 2024

Suffice to say, wonka operators are a simple concept that becomes incredibly tricky very quickly!

Form Validations 13 Jun 2024

When my front end is decoupled from my backend via JSON API, how does my front end know what kind of validation logic my backend does on the data I provide it? Usually, it doesn’t!