Introduction

Originally, I was planning to write about the differences and implementations of shallow and deep copying. However, while researching, I stumbled upon articles related to call by value and call by reference, and the more I delved into it, the more interesting it became. I thought I had understood this issue, but the more I read, the more confused I became.

There are two ways to write this article. One is to record in detail my process of researching this issue, my doubts, and how I arrived at a solution, essentially writing in chronological order. The other is to organize my findings and express them in a simpler and more understandable way.

In the past, I have mostly taken the second approach, reorganizing and summarizing my findings to write an article that is relatively easy to understand, leading readers step by step through my thought process to arrive at a solution.

However, this time I want to try the first approach, taking readers through the materials I usually read when writing articles and explaining my thought process. This should be quite interesting.

Let’s go!

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Introduction

Although I’ve heard about React replacing its internal reconciler with something called Fiber for a long time, I’ve never studied it in detail and didn’t know what impact this change would have on higher-level components.

I only began to understand it more deeply when I encountered a related bug while using Redux Form. I learned that since React officially switched to Fiber, there have been some changes to higher-level components.

The title of this article, “A Brief Introduction,” is not a lie. I won’t talk about the underlying operation of Fiber (because I haven’t studied it seriously yet). I will only use plain language to explain what Fiber is, what problems it was created to solve, and its impact on React lifecycles.

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Introduction

I recently came across this article on Hacker News: Show HN: A CSS Keylogger, which opened my eyes and inspired me to study it in depth and write an article to share with everyone.

This article will cover the following topics:

1. What is a keylogger
2. The principle of CSS keylogger
3. CSS keylogger and React
4. Defense methods

Alright, let’s get started!

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Introduction

Recently, I started a side project called Lidemy Mentor Program, hoping to train students to become employable engineers within four months.

As Git is one of the essential skills for engineers, it is reasonable to use Git to submit homework and cultivate students’ familiarity with Git.

But the question is: how to submit homework using Git?

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Recently, while refactoring a project at my company, I tried some things and found that I didn’t really understand React’s rendering mechanism and when render would be triggered. Later, I found that not only me, but many people were not familiar with the whole mechanism, so I decided to write this article to share my experience.

Actually, it’s not too bad if you don’t know how to optimize, but the worse thing is that you think you’re optimizing, but you’re actually slowing down performance, and the root cause is that you’re not familiar enough with the whole mechanism of React. The “optimized” component is slower! This is serious.

Therefore, this article will cover the following topics:

1. The difference between Component and PureComponent
2. The role of shouldComponentUpdate
3. React’s rendering mechanism
4. Why use Immutable data structures

To determine how much you understand the above, let’s take a few quizzes right away! Some of them have traps, so please keep your eyes open!

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Introduction

I have been interested in RxJS for quite some time. I first learned about it through redux-observable, a middleware for Redux that Netflix uses to solve complex asynchronous problems. At that time, I hadn’t even figured out redux-saga, and I didn’t expect another new thing to come out.

Half a year ago, I spent some time searching for information on the internet, trying to understand the whole thing. However, for me, many of the tutorials were either too fast-paced or too detailed, making it difficult for beginners to follow.

This time, I had the opportunity to try to introduce redux-observable into a new project at work. As someone who advocates for its adoption, I must have a certain understanding of this thing. With this idea in mind, I spent some time last week studying the relevant resources again and gradually came up with a method of “I think I can explain RxJS more clearly” and share it with you here.

Before we begin, I want to give a big shoutout to last year’s iT 邦幫忙鐵人賽 Web group champion: 30 Days to Master RxJS. This series of articles is very comprehensive, and you can feel that the author has put a lot of effort into it. If you are interested in more applications after reading this article, you can read the entire series of articles.

Okay, let’s get started!

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Introduction

I came across an article on Hacker News about Payment Request API — Now Being Implemented in All Major Browsers, which means that Payment Request API will be implemented in mainstream browsers.

Before that, I had never heard of it and had no idea what it was doing. But after a little research, I found out that it is the future of web payment interface.

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Preface

This post (You go your way, I’ll go mine: Front-end Separation) is one of the articles I wrote for the iT Ironman Contest. After receiving some feedback, I decided to revise and clarify the article.

If you have the following questions, this article is perfect for you:

1. Why does the front-end have MVC?
2. What is the difference between front-end MVC and back-end MVC?
3. Why do we need SPA (Single Page Application)?

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Preface

Finally, it’s done!

It took me a whole day to deal with the moving stuff, which was really troublesome, and I encountered many small problems along the way. So I wrote this article to record my experience.

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Introduction

When learning to write web pages, you usually start with HTML and CSS, which are responsible for creating and beautifying the layout. Once you have a solid foundation, you start learning JavaScript to create interactive effects. In addition to user and browser interactions, don’t forget about the interaction between the client and server, which means you must learn how to use JavaScript to retrieve data from the backend server. Otherwise, your web page data will be static.

The main target audience of this article is beginners in web front-end development. I hope that after reading this article, readers who do not understand how to exchange data with the server or how to connect to APIs can have a better understanding of how to connect to the backend.

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