Alejandro Napoles

How did it get so late so soon? Let’s jump-start the blog again and explore one of the first exercises I worked on when learning Elixir: a simple substitution cipher, in this case the Caesar cipher and what’s the basic math required to create it.

With the release of Webpack 2 a few months back, it’s already a good time to start migrating to this new version.

I want the styles of a component to be associated to that specific component alone. Because of this, I started to investigate what other people were doing about this. I found what I was looking for all along: CSS Modules.

Programming in development mode gives us a lot of helpful features. The final product will be downloaded and executed in the browser, which has limited resources. How many times we’ve closed a web page to never come back because it makes us wait a few seconds too many?

Each change in the code of my current project I was receiving the following React Router error: You cannot change Routes. That meant that I was having to refresh the page manually, rendering the hot reloading almost useless. Let’s see how to fix this.

I was trying to remove the capitalization of some directories in my project, but it didn’t turn out initially as I wanted. If someone were to clone the project she would find the directories capitalized. This happens because Git by default is not case sensitive in my system.