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Stop doing this or nobody will understand your code

I was coding and stumbled upon something really disappointing the other day.

Do you see it?

Let’s zoom in a bit more:

This line:

Please don’t do this in any language.

Don’t await properties.

You’re destroying your code readability and ruining the whole concept of OOP.

Properties are features not actions.

They don’t do like methods. They are.

They are data holders representing states of an object.

Simple states:

class Person {
  firstName = 'Tari';
  lastName = 'Ibaba';
  site = 'codingbeautydev.com';
}

Derived states -- what getters are meant for:

The secret code Google uses to track everything you do online

Google now has at least 3 ways to track your search clicks and visits that they hide from you.

Have you ever tried to copy a URL directly from Google Search?

When I did that a few months ago, I unexpectedly got something like this from my clipboard.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjUmK2Tk-eCAxXtV0EAHX3jCyoQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcodingbeautydev.com%2Fblog%2Fvscode-tips-tricks&usg=AOvVaw0xw4tT2wWNUxkHWf90XadI&opi=89978449

I curiously visited the page and guess what? It took me straight to the original URL.

This cryptic URL turned out to be a middleman that would redirect you to the actual page.

But what for?

After some investigation, I discovered that this was how Google Search had been recording our clicks and tracking every single visited page.

They set custom data- attributes and a mousedown event on each link in the search results page:

<a jsname="UWckNb"
   href="https://codingbeautydev.com/blog/vscode-tips-tricks"
   data-jsarwt="1"
   data-usg="AOvVaw0xw4tT2wWNUxkHWf90XadI"
   data-ved="2ahUKEwjUmK2Tk-eCAxXtV0EAHX3jCyoQFnoECAkQAQ">
</a>

A JavaScript function would change the href to a new URL with several parameters including the original URL, as soon as you start clicking on it:

This new React library will make you dump Redux forever

The new Zustand library changes everything for state management in web dev.

The simplicity completely blows Redux away. It’s like Assembly vs Python.

Forget action types, dispatch, Providers and all that verbose garbage.

Just use a hook! 👇

import { create } from 'zustand';

const useStore = create((set) => ({
  count: 0,
  increment: () => set((state) => ({ count: state.count + 1 })),
}));

Effortless and intuitive with all the benefits of Redux and Flux — immutability, data-UI decoupling…

With none of the boilerplate — it’s just an object.

Redux had to be patched with hook support but Zustand was built from the ground up with hooks in mind.

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Don’t let the bugs byte,
The Coding Beauty team