jondlm

React introduced shallow rendering in 0.13. This is an excellent feature that I wish was included earlier in React. It aims to solve the problem of unit testing components without going through a real, or jsdom mocked, DOM. I couldn't find any info online about what lifecycle events it actually fires. So I did some testing of my own. To reproduce, put component.js and test.js into a folder and run node test.js.

TLDR; shallow rendering only invokes the following lifecycle hooks (in order):

1. getDefaultProps
2. getInitialState
3. componentWillMount stops here until re-render
4. componentWillReceiveProps
5. shouldComponentUpdate
6. componentWillUpdate

mapmeld

Getting Started

I recently made my first map with MapBox's new WebGL+JavaScript API. There aren't many examples of how to do this yet, even on MapBox's API page, so I'll document my own experience here.

The Van Gogh Map

My map is made of several textures taken from Van Gogh paintings. The long-term goal is to allow a user to select which artworks they want to take textures from, but for now there is just one setting.

Why are we changing maps?