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👨‍💻 Coding Best Practices

Instant PR Rejection If You Use useEffect Like This
The useEffect hook is one of the most commonly used hooks in React.
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
Our Last Kubernetes Ingress Production Incident — Explained in 5 Minutes
This one setting in NGINX caused unexpected API failures — here’s why.
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
Give Me 5 Minutes and I’ll Explain Why You’re Splitting Functions Wrong
Everything You Need To Know On When To Split Functions For Clean Code
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
I Will Reject Your Pull Request If You Violate These Design Principles
4 Principles for Clean Code That Won’t Get Your PR Rejected
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
Follow These 3 Rules in Your React Components or I Will Ask You to Refactor
Lessons Learned from Real-World Applications
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
Front-End Architecture Lessons from a $1.7 Billion GenAI Startup
Exploring Cresta’s Effective Strategies and Tools in Front-End Development
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
The One Thing You Should Do to Make Your Code Reviewers Happy
Practical Guide to Managing Branches and Creating Smaller Diffs for Better Code Reviews
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
Follow These 6 Patterns or I Will Reject Your Pull Request
Get Your PRs Merged Faster! Lessons Learned from Reviewing 1,000+ PRs!
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
After Reviewing 500+ React Components, Here’s what I Have Learned
Simple yet effective advice
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
How to build a REST API with gRPC and get the best of two worlds
Build a gRPC Service with REST support from an OpenAPI description.
 • Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof
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