How to Remain A Successful Product Designer In Our Current Digital Hellscape
As digital product designers, digital detaching is a tough feat to accomplish. To be successful, we need a deep understanding and plenty of practice u ...
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The Latest from Formidable ✒️
Thoughts from our team on current events, new techniques and tools, trends we're seeing, and our unique Formidable culture.
The State of Reason in 2021
The question, "Is Reason ready?" still looms large in every conversation I have about the language. In this piece, I hope to answer that question by e ...
Parker Ziegler
Stores: Making State Global Without React's Context API
In this article we're going to explore some drawbacks of context-based state in typical application architecture, then explore an alternative construc ...
A Deep Dive into Debugging Cypress, iframes, & Runtime Code Modification
As software engineers, a large portion of our time is spent researching, reproducing, and fixing bugs. Being able to effectively discover, track down, ...
Getting To Know Kadi Kraman
I feel so very fortunate that I found a dream career. I love working in tech, I love building things that people get to use, I love solving problems, ...
Spectacle 7 Now Available
Introducing Spectacle 7, which includes several under-the-hood improvements that improve the overall experience with a couple API changes based on com ...
Building Future UIs
What is it about futuristic sci-fi UIs that feel so futuristic and appealing? Can we build some of these with the web technologies we have today?
Brian Mathews
Welcome Catleah!
Formidable's strategic design team is growing quickly. Time to meet one of the newer members, Catleah Cunanan!
Achieving Reusability With React Composition
In this article, you'll learn how to use React Composition to create reusable and extendable components. This will help you identify opportunities to ...
trace-pkg: Package Node.js apps for AWS Lambda and beyond
Packaging Node.js applications for the cloud can be slow and tedious. We introduce trace-pkg, a general purpose tool to quickly and efficiently packag ...
Calibrated Code Reviews
Approaching our code reviews from a place of intentionality can help us build better relationships with our teammates, inspire more thoughtful convers ...
Conversion to TypeScript: Lessons Learned from an OSS Maintainer
Formidable's Emil Hartz recently undertook the conversion of his long-maintained OSS package to TypeScript. We asked a few questions related to the co ...
Say Hello to Charlie
Charlie is a full-stack engineer with a broad range of experience leading large and small teams. Today he explains what he does at Formidable and why ...
Is the Future of Web Design Polymorphic?
In this article, we will be looking at how layout on the web went from fixed to fluid, and fluid to responsive, asking ourselves: What's next? We will ...
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