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A common question I hear from junior-level software engineers is what it takes to advance in their career as software engineers. In this article, I discuss my journey to becoming a staff software engineer and what I learned along the way.

Yarn 2 introduced a new feature referred to as "constraints" to help you manage packages in your monorepo. In this article, I explain how constraints work and show you how you can use them to enforce consistency in your monorepo.

Releasing npm packages can be a challenge. There are often many steps in the process and forgetting a step can result in a package being released incorrectly. In this article, I will show how to implement semantic-release in your project to fully automate your npm package releases.

Enforcing consistent code formatting in your repositories with Prettier is great, but it can easily result in a less than ideal developer experience. In this article, I discuss how to leverage GitHub Actions to automate code formatting without requiring any additional steps from developers.

Derived state in React is generally considered to be an anti-pattern that should be avoided. In this article, I show how to recognize derived state in your components and alternative ways to write your components to avoid using derived state.