Getting Started with React Hooks
How to get started with React hooks and write cleaner code.
Hi, I'm Ben Robertson.
🛠 I'm a front end developer at Mediacurrent.
✍️ I write about front end development and web accessibility.
✈️ I help front end developers find remote jobs.
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Recent Writing
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Color Swatches in Storybook
How to display your SCSS / Sass color variables as color swatches in StorybookJS.
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The Myth of Inaccessible React
You might have heard ReactJS sites are inaccessible, but with the right setup, React can help you make your projects more accessible than ever before!
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5 Tools For Automated Accessibility Audits
Some of the quickest accessibility wins can be simple fixes, but if you don't know what to look for, they can be hard to spot.
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Move Fast, Don't Break Things: Trends in Modern Web Development
How moving away from CMS-centered development will make web development better for everybody: front end developers, back end developers, project managaers, and clients.
Updates
Couldn’t resist creating a hamburgerHelper method to a hamburger menu 🍔
The hardest problem in programming is saying a word out loud for the first time in front of other people that you’ve read a million times but never heard anyone else say out loud.
This looks like a good starting point for working with service workers: Minimal viable service worker from Jeremy Keith https://adactio.com/journal/13540
I discovered crontab.guru. A simple way to visualize cron scheduling, for people like me that don’t get it 😉
My wife and I welcomed our first son into the world on February 16. I couldn’t be prouder 😍
