Chen Jian

Some thoughts about reusable component design in react

Consider passing in some properties as children,  instead of props . This will make the code looks cleaner: The consumer doesn’t have to build a big “props” object to pass in You will divide a single component into several ones. Each one will a take small props object, which is highly inherent For example, instead …

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Always have a “.dockerignore” and always have “.git” in it

Without “.dockerignore” the whole directory where Dockerfile is in will be sent to docker daemon, which may be huge And always create a “.git” entry in the file, because this directory can be very big. P.S. Failling to do this may lead to the hanging of “docker-compose up”. It will show the following message: You …

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Best practice: all Postgres tables can have these columns

They should all have these columns: Primary key: id , bigserial (which creates a sequence behind the scene) Date created: utc_created – Use current timestamp as a default value Date updated: utc_updated – Use a trigger to automatically update it (See code below) Creator: created_by – text type, can be anything Updator: updated_by – text …

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Timezone choice for Postgre and things to do in Java

Always use UTC as the timezone for postgre timestamp/date columns, which is considered to be the best practice and recommended by Postgre, e.g. And you java application is normally using LocalDateTime/LocalDate, if your system is not a global operation. So there needs to be a conversion in data access layer of you java application. According …

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