Blake Wight

@NardBagel

Senior Fullstack Developer

Lehi, UtahJoined November 2020

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I work for Route.com as a Fullstack Engineer (primarily front end focused). I write about career advice, musings on how I would run an engineering org, React, and Javascript.

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Side work in frontend Interesting startup opportunities

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BWBlake Wightblog.blakewight.comJun 10, 2021 · 4 min read

Better Svelte web-components

Recently I was tasked with building a UI component that could be loaded into an application. I had heard about web components, but haven't had the chance to mess around with them. I also took the opportunity to look Svelte. The reason for the Svelte ...

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BWBlake Wightblog.blakewight.comApr 23, 2021 · 3 min read

Magical React - Recurser Component

This is a component idea I had that I thought was pretty clever. It isn't useful in all cases, but it is something that you can use when you have nested structures with a dynamic depth. This would be helpful if you happen to be rendering a file syste...

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BWBlake Wightblog.blakewight.comApr 7, 2021 · 5 min read

4 things to do after Create-React-App

You are starting a new front-end application and you've chosen React. Great! What next? Here is a list of things that I do after I create a new React application. There may be more that you choose to do, or maybe less. This is just what I choose to d...

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BWBlake Wightblog.blakewight.comApr 2, 2021 · 3 min read

Recursive lists in React using Context

Recently I have been working a lot with recursive trees and displaying them in React. While working with them I came up with a pattern that I like, and that I want to share with those that run into this pattern. They can overcome this hurdle in a way...

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BWBlake Wightblog.blakewight.comMar 18, 2021 · 5 min read

How to make big projects developable

I have had the opportunity lately of being a contributor on a lot of projects at my current place of employment. I have run into snags trying to get codebases running, connecting to databases, testing things locally, etc... Running into this problem ...

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Better Svelte web-components

Magical React - Recurser Component

4 things to do after Create-React-App

Recursive lists in React using Context

How to make big projects developable

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Blake Wight

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Blake Wight's blogs

Recently published

Better Svelte web-components

Magical React - Recurser Component

4 things to do after Create-React-App

Recursive lists in React using Context

How to make big projects developable