The Call Kent Podcast

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Hi Kent!

How do you create a progress bar for actions in Remix?

Like if a request takes maybe 10 or 20 seconds to finish and you want to give your users some feedback that things are progressing?

Best regards, Jan

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When we were building client side application mocking during e2e tests was a bit easier because you could just monkey patch fetch and call it a day. Today we also control the server so the line has a bit shifted. There are solutions, like MSW, to mock on the server side too but what if instead of an API call you query a db?

The content for new developers is everywhere, but finding quality insight that helps you level to senior and above is hard to come by. This is in part because such content is difficult and time consuming to make. What goes into making such content and is there a lack of it in our industry?

Hi Kent,

It's Jan 👋

When creating a dropdown menu (e.g. to pick a role in an organization), would you wrap the whole menu in a form tag and then render multiple buttons within that form (one for each role)? Or would you render multiple forms (one for each role) with each having their own submit button?

Thanks a ton if you answer!

Best regards, Jan

Hi Kent,

It's Jan.

I'm currently working on implementing toasts in a Remix app. I was using the Epic Stack as a reference.

BTW, thank you for creating it, it's so nice to take some features and functionalities from it when you need them!

Anyways, it looks like the implementation of the toast in the Epic Stack does NOT work with JavaScript disabled. But theoretically, you could make toasts in Remix progressively enhanced by giving the close button a form and prevent default when JavaScript is enabled.

It looks like the library you're using in the Epic Stack - Sonner - does NOT expose the close button, so you can't progressively enhance it.

Was it a conscious decision to make the toast JavaScript only? Or let me ask the decision more openly, what are your thoughts on this?

As always, thanks a ton!

So, recently I started looking for my first software job. The first offer I received was from a company looking for an intern. The internship had the following conditions: 1) the first 3 months of it are unpaid 2) you have to sign a contract after the 1st month of it that obligates you to stay at the company 2 years after the internship is ended. I rejected it because I felt like you never know what that company may turn out to be. For example, it may try to exploit you and pay you the bare minimum for the job you're doing preventing your career growth and your only option may be to wait for that contract to expire and then start looking for a higher position at another company. I'd like to ask your opinion about:

• unpaid internships
• internships that obligate you to stay at the company for 1 or 2 years once the internship is ended
• companies that follow both of these practices

My question is around the optimization techniques that a lot of people apply to React apps. I see very often how devs focus on executing their components only once or twice. What I think matters at the end is if there any changes in the actual DOM tree. If not they in theory should be ok to see your functional components fired many times.

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What are the pros and cons of the flat routes vs the v2 router? Are you planning to switch at some point?

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Hi Kent. I am building an app where product sellers can add their products and they by default get a website listing their products.

On the app can make some basic customizations for their store website such as color, border radius etc. And each store owner's website is a subdomain. e.g kentstore.xyz.com

I am using remix for the stores. On page load, I want to fetch the styling config for the website from the db.

What would be the best approach for this ?. Your insight would be very valuable to me

I look forward to your response.

PS: I am totally loving the epic-web course. You're simply amazing.

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Hi Kent ! I'm Virgile, big fan of your work, and I have a question regarding your article 'Full Stack Component'.

I am currently using a combobox, managed by useCombobox from the downshift library.

But I would like conform to take over the input props management, while still getting the autocomplete features.

I'm curious how you would implement it.

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Curious about your thoughts on this article Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework

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Do you have some best practices for scale Remix applications with Prisma regarding testability, reusability, and separation of concerns? When do you decide to move functions and business logic from loaders and actions to a .server file? Do you have functions like getUsers in a user.server file or do you call the database directly in the loaders?

Can home made client hints like the one you are using in Epic Web Stack be seen as profiling?

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What is a good way to test fs modules and why converting MDX on runtime is better than runtime.

Yes, this is Kent calling himself. I just wanted to let all subscribers to the podcast know that https://EpicWeb.dev is available today!

What do you consider full stack? E.g. some people think that full-stack should include devOps, some don't. What do you think? And does EpicWeb consider devOps to be apart full stack?

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root.tsx is over 300 lines. Is there a reason for keeping all the functions in one file? Why don't you split each function in separate a file and import it?

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