Things Change Constantly - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

Hey there friends. This is your friend Kent on Monday January 4th 2021, and
today I just wanted to talk about how things change constantly. So I wasupdating the bookshelf app the app that we built together on Epic React.dev
and just realized that there are a handful of well actually.I think only one major thing that has changed since I released this and
that is React query version 3 came out. And it's just it would there are so
many videos that that impacts.Even though the impacts themselves arerelatively small it just like destroys so many of the videos I had to
re-record all of those.And yeah, so I was just thinking about how things change and not only do
our dependencies change but like the way that I recommend to doing thingschange and also like there's another one of the workshops the testing react
apps in there. I have one exercise where we're dealing with a hook that
allows you to get the geolocation of the current user.And so we're mocking that out, of course, you wouldn't be able to do that
in a test because like,If you run it locally on your machine it's gonna be
one place and if you run it on CI it'll be a different So even if it was
supported in the environment you're gonna want to mock it out.
Anyway, so the way that I approach doing that was a little complicatedbecause you had to use act directly and somebody just recommended hey, why
don't you use wait for element to be removed you wait for the spinner to go
away and and then you don't have to use act directly and so like little
things like this come up all the time and and I say well, you know the waythat I showed works and and I would like it.
It's it's a reasonably good way to solve this problem.But your suggestion
is is arguably better. So I would suggest going with that. And so yeah,we've got things that change because just developers make cooler new things
and then we've got things that change because the ideas are new and things
and testing JavaScript has gone through this as well.And it's I guess I don't really have a whole lot positive to say about
this, but it's it's just something to keep in mind that things are always
going to change and you can't just wait for the next thing to to come
out.All ways because you're always going to be waiting It's like waiting
for you know the new addition of the best car You're always going to be
waiting.There's always going to be a better car. So you just buy the one that you
can afford right now that accomplishes your purposes and then just closeyour eyes anytime there's the new one out or something like that, but we've
got to bet on technologies at some point and you've got a bet today.
So just make the best decision and know that it's impossible to make a
perfect one and do the best which with with what we have today. I hope youhave an awesome day. We'll see you all later.

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