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Mehdi Mollaverdi

My Journey in a UI Project (aka front-end is the new back-end)

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In this blog post, I share my recent experience in a UI project, as a developer with limited past experience in UI development. I published this internally on REA Group's wiki a while back to foster interest in UI projects from a broader set of developers - highlighting that solid engineering is a big part of contemporary UI development. This is not specific to REA, hence I was keen to share this journey externally on our blog. A little bit about my background Before joining REA Group (realestate.com.au), I had…

What are these Applicatives you speak of?

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Introduction In this blog post, I'm going to provide a very simple explanation for Applicatives (aka "Applicative Functors") just the way I know them. I'm not going to cover the math behind it, or the laws which applicatives must obey. I've taken a reverse approach compared to many other posts explaining Applicatives: rather than starting with what Applicatives are, I'm going to start with some examples to demonstrate the need for them, then I'll show how Applicatives can be used and at the end, I'll briefly cover how they can…

ReactJS – Real World Examples of Higher-Order Components

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A Little Bit of Background Here at REA Group, we've recently been working on a new UI for the core property search experience on realestate.com.au. We've been building this UI as a universal javascript application, supporting both server-side and client-side rendering, using NodeJS and ReactJS. During this project, we came across a few different use cases for some cross-cutting concerns, such as page load tracking, toggling new features on and off, and desktop/mobile toggling. We wanted to implement these in a generic and reusable way to avoid code duplication. For…