How it feels to code an HTML email template in 2021
October 08, 2021Learn about the pitfalls of coding HTML emails via a fictional, snarky conversation.
I'm Stoil Stoychev, a frontend software engineer, working with React and GraphQL. This blog (mostly) explores my tech stack.
Learning state machines with XState and React in an afternoon
February 02, 2021My job gave me an afteroon to figure out how to use state machines on the Frontend...
Why is 0.1 + 0.2 weird in JavaScript?
December 30, 2020Why do floating-point operations in JavaScript sometime have weird results?
How to write a debounce function in JavaScript with ES6 and arrow functions
December 18, 2020A guide to writing your own debouncing implementation in JavaScript with ES6
Flatten an array in JavaScript - stream of consciousness whiteboarding
April 04, 2020My real-time thought process as I whiteboard flattening arrays in Javascript to an empty room...
How GraphQL makes Redux obsolete
January 05, 2020Redux is meant to be your single source of truth by storing your app’s state in a single, central location and provides a standardized…
Why we switched to Apollo after an year of Relay
December 28, 2019GraphQL adoption is growing. Expect to see product teams gradually migrating RESTful endpoints to GraphQL For us frontend folk it means…
Let's solve Hackerrank's "Minimum Swaps 2" in Javascript
December 15, 2019Working through a simple problem on Hackerrank takes an unexpected turn when performance becomes an issue. A quest for fast array operations ensues.