TL;DR A world that scrolls infinitely in any direction, an RPG-like UI, and simple, real-time fighting. My younger kids and I built this entry for PyWeek 32 based on the theme “Neverending”. The key innovations are: It has a neverending world. As the player walks along, it picks up tiles and places new ones invisibly. It uses an LRUDict to remember the ...

As usual, you should check out the CHANGELOG. However, let me point out a few things specifically: Don’t use the @action decorator on a singleton object that you pass to observable(). If you have code that looks like observable({ @action f: () => {}), you should change it to observable({ f: action(() => {}). Apparently, using decorators on singleton objects ...

What do WebASM, Reason, Dart, Rust, and Go all have in common? They’re all trying to make the web faster. However, they do it in different ways. WebASM’s approach is obvious. Take high performance code written in C and C++. Find a way to run it safely in the browser. Dart’s initial approach was different. In the short term, Dart ...

I recently found a bug in react-css-modules that prevented me from upgrading react-mobx which prevented us from upgrading to React 16. Then, I found out that react-css-modules is “no longer actively maintained”. Hence, whether I wanted to or not, I was kind of forced into moving from react-css-modules to babel-plugin-react-css-modules. Doing the port is mostly straightforward. Once I switched libraries, the rest of the ...

As usual, you should check out the CHANGELOG. However, let me point out a few things specifically: If you have something like: observable({ @computed get someProp() { ... } }); your code will work in 2.6.0, but in 2.7.0 reactions won’t occur properly. Your tests will end up timing out. It needs to be: observable({ get someProp() { ... } }); ...

I spend a lot of my time refactoring code across a very large, legacy codebase at work. Often times, I’ll do a search for something and work my way through the results over a period of days. Sometimes, something I see might lead me to do another search and a minor refactoring job which is part of the overall refactoring ...