A pull request lands in your codebase, and the CI pipeline fails. A snapshot test broke. You open the diff and see ...a handful of seemingly random, tiny changes. You shrug, update the snapshots, and move on. This sucks.One of the patterns that can significantly improve our codebase is the Compound Component pattern. Today, we're diving deep into how this pattern works, the problems it solves, and some advanced techniques.A simple cheatsheet for all the JavaScript Array MethodsSetting if a prop is optional or not in TypeScript is really simple. But what if you have several optional props, you don't care which one is passed, but one of them has to? That's where Generics can save the day.I recently did a talk at Belfast JS on an introduction to Design Tokens. You can check out the recording here.This will be a quick one. I've wondered for a while how Spotify do their dynamic colours from an album cover, so went down a rabbit hole. While I might look into a more accurate way , I discovered a neat trick for getting that dynamic glow effect on an image.There has been an increasing issue where "Front End" just means anything to do with the browser or web. The shear amount of knowledge a Front End Developer apparently needed to know is so vast as to be impossible.How I generate a printable PDF version of my CV automatically every time I update it, using Node and a headless Chrome.Hitting a 404 is usually an unpleasant experience so I'll try and balance that out with a pleasant one - and what does everyone love? Cute animals of course!How being a developer can make you a better designer. 
