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Recreating Signals for React using Proxy

So Javascript has this interesting feature called Proxy. This will allow you to intercept value getting and setting in a given object. This can be used to achieve Signals in React. By notifying listeners whenever the value property is set. For there to be listeners, we should also add a subscribe function that returns a […]

Redesign 2022

Welcome back to yet another edition of “Håkon redesigns his portfolio/blog for the nth time”. I really should come up with a more catchy name. Let’s start off with some stats, shall we? The previous design has been live since atleast September 2020. I’ve worked on it incrementally since it was launched back in September […]

My 2021

Hi! It’s been a while. I wanted to write an article to explain what I’ve been up to lately, and share some hopefully interesting thoughts. Yearly write up Hopefully, I’ll be able to write more than one article next year. It’s been busy for sure, and just really a big change of scene. When covid […]

About me

Hey! My name is Håkon Underbakke. I’m a front end developer from Norway, currently living in Stavanger and working mainly with React. I have been working for Idean since April 2020, doing front end development. Before that, I worked for LIGL AS for 4 years, doing various web projects as well as legal document automation […]