Things Change Constantly

Hey there friends. This is your friend Kent on Monday January 4th 2021, and

today I just wanted to talk about how things change constantly. So I was

updating the bookshelf app the app that we built together on Epic React.dev

and just realized that there are a handful of well actually.

I think only one major thing that has changed since I released this and

that is React query version 3 came out. And it's just it would there are so

many videos that that impacts.Even though the impacts themselves are

relatively small it just like destroys so many of the videos I had to

re-record all of those.

And yeah, so I was just thinking about how things change and not only do

our dependencies change but like the way that I recommend to doing things

change and also like there's another one of the workshops the testing react

apps in there. I have one exercise where we're dealing with a hook that

allows you to get the geolocation of the current user.

And so we're mocking that out, of course, you wouldn't be able to do that

in a test because like,If you run it locally on your machine it's gonna be

one place and if you run it on CI it'll be a different So even if it was

supported in the environment you're gonna want to mock it out.

Anyway, so the way that I approach doing that was a little complicated

because you had to use act directly and somebody just recommended hey, why

don't you use wait for element to be removed you wait for the spinner to go

away and and then you don't have to use act directly and so like little

things like this come up all the time and and I say well, you know the way

that I showed works and and I would like it.

It's it's a reasonably good way to solve this problem.But your suggestion

is is arguably better. So I would suggest going with that. And so yeah,

we've got things that change because just developers make cooler new things

and then we've got things that change because the ideas are new and things

and testing JavaScript has gone through this as well.

And it's I guess I don't really have a whole lot positive to say about

this, but it's it's just something to keep in mind that things are always

going to change and you can't just wait for the next thing to to come

out.All ways because you're always going to be waiting It's like waiting

for you know the new addition of the best car You're always going to be

waiting.

There's always going to be a better car. So you just buy the one that you

can afford right now that accomplishes your purposes and then just close

your eyes anytime there's the new one out or something like that, but we've

got to bet on technologies at some point and you've got a bet today.

So just make the best decision and know that it's impossible to make a

perfect one and do the best which with with what we have today. I hope you

have an awesome day. We'll see you all later.