I sometimes need to search and replace across some code, but with parts of the search left untouched. Every time, I forget how to do it in VS Code.

usePatchedState is a nice hook to simplify complex state management in React with TypeScript. Instead of many indivual, atomic useState calls, you define your initial state and then get a “patch” function that you use to edit parts of the state granularly.

A Prettier feature that I love is that it formats files, but also code blocks in Markdown files. I wanted to customize the maximum line length and the tab size for the code in my articles, but not have the same option applied to the rest of my codebase.

I recently started migrating my company’s codebase to Redux Toolkit, after many years using bare Redux with manually (painfully) written action creators and reducers. After some time, I realized that our error handling code was malfunctioning for async thunks.