Matthew Brown's Software Blog

I recently read the book The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler… »

The Software Develop Blueprint: How I Became a Developer and How You Can Too I am proud to announce that I have a new eBook available now on… »

The Problem If you've ever used Material UI components for a React project, you've most likely ran into performance issues with displaying… »

I recently wrote an article explaining the pros and cons of serverless computing and then build a Node.js web service using the serverless… »

In this article I'm going to discuss the functional programming paradigm and the benefits of using that paradigm in your code. I'll be… »

I believe that code reviews are one of the best things a development team can do for adding value to their development process. I know from… »

I'm currently working on a project that uses React and Redux. Both of these js libraries enforce immutability of objects as they won't let… »

New Blog! If you've checked out my blog before you'll likely notice things look pretty different. I'm currently in the middle of the… »

In this article I'm going to explain functional stateless React components using simple code examples. Now this may sound abstract, but the… »

If you don't use JavaScript's call, bind, and apply regularly you might not be aware of what they do and how to use these native functions… »