If you (unlikely) haven't heard how game devs are not happy with Apple's 30% commission & strong ios monopolical control makes game studios cry, this articles gives you an interesting perspective on how Epic Games recently decided to fight back.

Interestingly, Epic Games doesn't even consider Google evil since it allows app installation from outside the store.

PS after doing a bit of mobile development, I can say that prod-testing on Apple with its testflight and all is also not cool, especially when on android you can just make an apk build

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To read more about the topic, I'd also suggest reading recent Pavel Durov's post

https://t.iss.one/durov/122

Recoil js

Some people say they get annoyed when something new comes in the JS world.

I personally wait till it get more or less oftenly used in the market and jump on it myself to try.

Recoil is one of those on my list to replace Redux or even Hooks.

Doesn't look as performant as Mobx, but apparently easier to introduce to your project (especially if you are good with Hooks)

https://dev.to/chandan/recoil-vs-redux-the-ultimate-react-state-management-face-off-35b#:~:text=In%20redux%2C%20actions%20are%20fired,shared%20atom%20state%20using%20selectors.

(^Well, that's a nasty long url)

On a side note, if you are into some lofi music while coding, I am listening to this one for the whole day and it goes quite well. Non disruptive and allows to focus.

Even got back my free Spotify account 🎶

Lofi coders

And since I'm on it this YouTube never ending playlist is also great.

And my classical choice for coding background music is Playlist from Tron Legacy

I know you like this things 🔥

Looks like we got to 10k

Thank you everyone for interest and unconditional support from those who help others in our discussion group 🍾

PS also apparently if you send 🔥 it gets animated now

I would just place this one as a prank for something like "keep me authorised" 😂

You can check it yourself
https://codepen.io/jh3y/full/LYNZwGm

After a few UI/UX posts, I need to go a bit technical to make a confession - I don't like Redux.

Honestly, even my own implementation with Hooks always seemed more straightforward.

I also probably need to make a note that I dislike everything that forces me to write more code than I need to (it started with php. I know, I know, you don't have to unsubscribe because of this).

For anyone feeling the same, Redux-toolkit is something humanity came up with to reduce the pain. In case, you didn't know.

https://redux-toolkit.js.org/

(and there is also Mobx)

How to CSS in React

Another great article from one of my favourite React-evangelist.

www.robinwieruch.de/react-css-styling

Covers all:

🔥CSS in CSS (e.g. Sass)
🔥CSS in JS (e.g. Styled-components)
🔥Utility-first (e.g. Tailwind)

And since we are entering a hugely opinionated area here, I am gonna throw a holywar trigger and tell you that: although I'm using Sass at work, I am in absolute love with Styled-components, if approached properly, the readability of your code is sooo good.

On the other hand, Tailwind, although with a clear purpose, seems to be the most ugly when it comes to readibility. The whole purpose of separate files for styling was to avoid having them in you main component (and not throw them inside your component as a never ending style line🤷‍♂)

Typescript 4.0 video from Ben Awad

​​A nice and quick intro on how JS engine V8 works under the hood

⌛️ only 4 minutes of your time

https://dev.to/edisonpappi/how-javascript-engines-chrome-v8-works-50if

Anyone used Chakra UI before? Any good compared to the alternatives?

Not the most informative UI, but definitely a neat one to look at 🔥

React in 100 seconds 🔥

A perfect, quick way to find out what it is and why it's so popular (if you don't know yet)

https://youtu.be/Tn6-PIqc4UM

Well here it comes.

Moment.js is officially done.

A fair move from the team. Respect and thanks for helping us fighting dates & timezones. Time for the lighter, more flexible alternatives to get their praise.

https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/

Particle.js
An easy way to add all sort of different interactive particles to your project

https://vincentgarreau.com/particles.js/