James Long is a prolific blogger and the author of several open source libraries including Prettier. He has recently started developing Actual, a budgeting app built in React and Electron. In this episode we talk about James’ approach to business, as well as take a peek behind the scenes at how he works with React.

James Long is a prolific blogger and the author of several open source libraries including Prettier. He has recently started developing Actual, a budgeting app built in React and Electron. In this episode we talk about James’ approach to business, as well as take a peek behind the scenes at how he works with React.

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James Long – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteMichael Jackson – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJed Watson – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteMichael Chan – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:



Actual Budget
Electron
Error Handling in React 16
Sentry
react-testing-library

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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