3 Minutes with Kent

By Kent C. Dodds

👋 Hi there! I'm Kent C. Dodds (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds). This is a (week)daily podcast where I give 3 minute thoughts about web development.

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May 25, 2016 Generators, Boilerplates, and Starter Kits
There are thousands of generators,
boilerplates, and starter
kits available on npm right
now. While these tools are super handy to get started, using them will bite
you in the long run. I recommend that you make and use your own, and only
use others as a reference.
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April 27, 2016 The value of an AMA
I was just thinking about my AMA and decided that I'd talk about how I've
found it to be valuable and encourage you to start your own!
Here's mine: https://github.com/kentcdodds/ama
Here's Sindre's: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama
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April 21, 2016 Aphrodite vs BEM (CSS)
I was talking with my good friend Jamund Ferguson today and he mentioned
that he just really likes the simplicity of using regular
(non-preprocessed) CSS with BEM and here are some of the reasons I still
prefer Aphrodite.
I didn't mention in this that I also love that Aphrodite automatically
vendor-prefixes everything for me as well.
Hope this is helpful!
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April 18, 2016 JavaScript Air Stats celebration (100k downloads!! 🎉)
JavaScript Air just passed 100,000 downloads on the audio podcast hosted by podbean.com 🎉 🎊
Things are going really well for the show so I wanted to share a bunch of stats about the show with you today. Here are the promised stats screenshots: http://jsair.io/stats-2016-04
See you on twitter!
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April 08, 2016 Q&A: Aphrodite vs CSS Modules?
My friend Matt Winchester asked me what I think of
Aphrodite compared to css-modules. Here's my answer.
Here's an example of me migrating from CSS (processed with PostCSS) to Aphrodite: https://github.com/javascriptair/site/commit/d8b8bf349f6c94a1d00539bb285240615baf5b7d
Oh! And one other thing I didn't mention as a benefit of Aphrodite that can be a killer feature is because your CSS is colocated with the components that are using it, you can ship only the styles that are needed and used, rather than shipping ALL of your styles. A lot of problems go away when you have an explicit relationship between your styles and your components 👍
I hope this is helpful :-) Feel free to ask more questions on my AMA
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April 07, 2016Q&A: Recording audio/video for JavaScript Air
Adam Morgan asked me how I record
audio and video for JavaScript Air. Here's my
answer.
Links:
How to start a podcast like JavaScript Air
Mostly Node podcast
Heil PR-40
microphone
Heil HB-1
Microphone Boom
Hangouts on air
I hope this is helpful! Feel free to ask me more questions on my AMA
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April 06, 2016How JavaScript Code Coverage Works
Just a quick explanation of how tools instrument your JavaScript code to
record and report code coverage. Common tools:
istanbul
nyc with ava are great for coverage of node-running tests (use jsdom to mock a DOM like I do).
babel-plugin-__coverage__
karma-coverage with karma and the babel plugin are great for coverage of code when you want to run your tests in a browser
isparta (no longer maintained, try the babel
plugin)
You may also be interested in this video + this repo where I go through setting up code coverage with ES6, Webpack, and Karma. Just replace where I use isparta with using babel-plugin-__coverage__ (like this) and it should work great 👍
I hope this is helpful!
See you on twitter!
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April 05, 2016 Working from home: Snacks
Just a quick pro-tip for those of you working from home. Keep the snacks
outside of arms reach! And drink lots of water!
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April 05, 2016 Automating JavaScript Air
I've automated a ton of stuff for JavaScript Air.
There's definitely still more to do, but I'm pretty happy with how much is
automated. You can find most of the automation stuff in the npm scripts in
the package.json in the
repo. Many of these reference
scripts found in the other directory.
Automation is great. In fact, this very episode used some of the automation
found in this repo to make it mono and compress the audio. As I often say:
Saving time is not the only reason to automate workflows.
See you on twitter!
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April 05, 2016From vim to Atom + vim mode
For the last 24 hours I've been using Atom with vim mode and so far I'm
liking it a lot. Here are the plugins I've installed so far:
ava
custom-invisibles
git-plus
language-babel
linter-eslint
open-this
relative-numbers
vim-mode
See you on twitter!
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