Happy Monday!
I believe that if you start the week by removing code is a good start of the week!
I learned how to leverage JWT to send encrypted data to the frontend.
And so I stripped down my system of hooks in React and also deleted completely an endpoint in Django that I was using solely to fetch user info.
Even more secure, with less code.
New blog post about the re-work of my bookmarking app.
Quite a technical one, but that's how things in life go.
This is about how I implemented the JWT auth system.
https://www.mauromotion.com/posts/2025-03-27-003-delish-jwt-authorization/
Holy ravioli.
I finally managed to have a working JWT authentication system between Django and React.
Major headache but I did it!
My only compromise (at least what it feels to me as a compromise) is that the SPA is abusing the refresh token to maintain the state of the logged in user, because I'm keeping the access token exclusively in memory.
Over-engineered solution for a simple CRUD app, but I'm learning a lot so I don't care.
How can something like a front end framework like #ReactJS that has supposedly been created to abstract and simplify writing #JavaScript “applications” be so fucking over-engineered and complicated, to the point that it needs dozens of libraries to simplify and abstract itself?
Where does this start to even make sense?
Thinking about this, I believe at least for me, what this course is breaking is the principle of learning new stuff ONLY if and when you need it.
There's no way you're gonna remember all the different React libraries for the rest of your life just by watching a few videos.
When I need to use something, I check it out.
And again, mixing too many different libraries to explain some basic workflow/pattern is particularly bad for a course like this.
An example?
Dealing with token authentication in #ReactJS.
The teacher attached this section to the previous section that was about React Router, by using the same code and expanding on it with the auth system.
Why? It's not a best practice IMO, I don't care about React Router all the times I build an auth system in React, at all!
I'd rather show how to implement token based authentication in a more vanilla React scenario.
And this is just one of the many bad practices in the course!
2/2
In the last few months I've been following this ReactJS course:
https://www.udemy.com/course/react-the-complete-guide-incl-redux
And I strongly advise against it.
Maybe it's very subjective but I now find that the course just made me waste a lot of time.
Not only is overly verbose and slow while treating the viewer like a dumdum, by repeating the same stuff over and over; but now that I know better, I can see so many pitfalls in the actual structure of the course.
1/2
https://2025.ploneconf.org/ can’t wait to visit Jyväskylä, and I’m even starting to remember how to spell it 
#plone #ploneconf2025 @plone @ploneconf #Python #cms #reactjs
Another update from my boomkarks-savings app rewrite. I'm done for now with the back-end, moving on to the front-end:
https://www.mauromotion.com/posts/2025-03-21-002-delish-backend-wrap-up/
I need to update my blog, the last two days have been very productive, I almost can't believe it.
I finished the back end API (at least to a functional state with all the basics I need), including all the endpoints and all the scraping functions as async jobs thanks to huey.
I set up the cors headers in Django and started a vite + ReactJS project.
Tested an API call from ReactJS and it works!!
I am now tired, I will post on my blog tomorrow.
An update on the re-work of my bookmarking application, slowly but surely moving forward:
https://www.mauromotion.com/posts/2025-03-18-001-delish-django-rest-framework/
I was today years old when I found out that Mastodon uses React for its front end!
Cinny v4.3 Update!
We're excited to introduce Cinny v4.3:
New user settings design with Folds system for a cleaner, intuitive experience
Major security upgrade with vodozemac encryption
Simplified device management with improved verification
Pin messages and bulk import custom emojis & stickers
Added developer tools for advanced customization
Emojiboard now supports emoji spec v15.1.0
Check out the update here: https://app.cinny.in/
Is there a better way to handle doing something after updating the state with #react `useState`?
Having a useEffect just feels a bit clunky especially when I have multiple states that I need to watch and do something whenever they're updated
Also on that, if useState is asynchronous, why doesn't it return a promise? I'm assuming there's a reason for that
@nixCraft Funfact: In #reactjs you must write comments like you did. Inside the brackets is #javascript and you can use js comments. The <!-- XML Comments --> do not exist in jsx.
(Not that i remember their syntax anyways)
Good Morning #FediHire friends - have a new role for ya!
Looking for a fairly senior frontend-focused #Software Engineer to join a team building a containerization product for the CI/CD pipeline called Dagger.
The role is looking for some fairly specific criteria so here are the key points:
* This role is not a UI Designer position, you must have a strong coding background ( #JavaScript / #TypeScript / #ReactJS preferred) in addition to design chops
* Must have at least some experience with #Golang
* You must have developed frontends for #devtools (the thought behind this requirement is that these tools are designed very differently than a typical B2C site so if you have done something substantially similar, answer yes).
* Americas (somewhere between EST to PST) timezones are required. We can hire in Canada, US, South America, and have hired in Europe before for exceptional candidates.
* We cannot sponsor visas at this time.
* Founder likes to discuss salary specifics on his call (2nd step in the process) but we typically don't lose people due to comp
* I've worked with this company for about 6 months and have only positive things to say about the team and culture
* There's currently a bug in the application coming from the ATS that's making the dropdowns funky. Don't judge me too harshly, I've submitted a ticket 
I'm the #recruiter on the role, so feel free to ask any questions here and I'll either have an answer or go find you one :)
Full JD and application here: https://grnh.se/a1934cb05us
A React-Router v7 template using Bun and Hono.
https://github.com/jpcpereira93/react-router-bun-hono-template
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