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Luke Brandon Farrell

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A Quick Guide to Reusable, Readable and Maintainable Components in React

While focusing on codebase organisation, many overlook a crucial aspect: the internal structure of the components themselves.

6 min readFeb 27, 2024

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A Quick Guide to Reusable, Readable and Maintainable Components in React

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Luke Brandon Farrell
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Clean Code Hack: A Short Guide to useEffect Usage in React

A few weeks ago, while assisting a friend, a junior developer at a small company, I encountered a notably disorganised codebase.

3 min readFeb 23, 2024

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Clean Code Hack: A Short Guide to useEffect Usage in React

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The right way to use PHPicker and retrieve EXIF data without requesting library permissions in…

Library permissions are not supposed to be used with PHPicker. In this article, we will cover the right way to use PHPicker, without…

7 min readJun 8, 2022

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The right way to use PHPicker and retrieve EXIF data without requesting library permissions in…

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Luke Brandon Farrell
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Error Handling in JavaScript: Stable Software in an Unknown World (Part 1)

Adapters are built with the purpose of processing data from one form to another. Can you supercharge the stability of your application?

8 min readJan 21, 2022

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Error Handling in JavaScript: Stable Software in an Unknown World (Part 1)

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Luke Brandon Farrell
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Animated List Reordering in React Native — Secrets Revealed

Animated reordering of a list in React Native is uncharted territory. The secrets solution revealed powered by react-spring!

4 min readMay 26, 2021

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Animated List Reordering in React Native — Secrets Revealed

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Luke Brandon Farrell

Getting the Latest Google Play Version Code with Fastlane

When using Fastlane you may find a need to fetch the latest Google Play version code for you builds. See: latest_googleplay_version_code

1 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Detecting System Dialogs with Detox E2E and React Native

If you are using Detox to run e2e testing for your Android and iOS applications you may have encountered some problems when dealing with…

1 min readJan 25, 2021

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Detecting System Dialogs with Detox E2E and React Native

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12 Powerful Principles for Robust React Apps (Industry Secrets Revealed!)

This short React guide will differentiate you from 99% of other application developers… an unfair adventure… I shouldn’t even share this…

8 min readJun 24, 2020

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4 Alarming Mistakes Which Will Doom Your React Applications

Secret mistakes revealed that React developers are blindly making 🔥💰🔥 Quick and easy solutions included.

3 min readApr 6, 2020

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4 Alarming Mistakes Which Will Doom Your React Applications

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Luke Brandon Farrell

Learn to Delegate to Fix Your Crammed Life and Unlock Unlimited Power

The simple secret behind effective delegation.

3 min readMar 12, 2020

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Learn to Delegate to Fix Your Crammed Life and Unlock Unlimited Power

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Luke Brandon Farrell

Luke Brandon Farrell

Luke develops mobile applications using React Native. He writes about component-first architecture and design, code readability, and React Native.

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