Pavels Jelisejevs

Pavels is a software developer from Riga, Latvia, with a keen interest for everything web-related. His interests range from back-end to front-end development, as well as analysis and automation. If you have something to discuss, you can always reach him via Facebook or LinkedIn.

Pavels's articles

An Introduction to JSX

JavaScript

By Matt Burnett, Pavels Jelisejevs, October 13, 2020

An introduction to JSX, explaining how it makes development easier, and why you shouldn’t be worried about separation-of-concerns issues.

React vs Angular: An In-depth Comparison

JavaScript

By Pavels Jelisejevs, August 24, 2020

Should you pick Angular or React? Pavels Jelisjevs looks in detail at what both frameworks have to offer, and gives some practical advice on how to choose.

Create React App – Get React Projects Ready Fast

JavaScript

By Pavels Jelisejevs, September 06, 2017

Create React App is a CLI tool from Facebook that allows you to generate a new React project and use a pre-configured Webpack build for development.

Automated Accessibility Checking with aXe

HTML & CSS

By Pavels Jelisejevs, March 29, 2017

Pavels Jelisjevs looks at aXe, a JS library that scans your website for a11y issues. Learn how to do automated accessibility checking via your test runner.

React Storybook: Develop Beautiful User Interfaces with Ease

JavaScript

By Pavels Jelisejevs, February 21, 2017

Pavels Jelisejevs introduces React Storybook, demonstrating how it aids collaboration and eases the pain of maintaining the UI components in your projects.

What’s New in HTML 5.1

HTML & CSS

By Pavels Jelisejevs, November 30, 2016

Pavels Jelisejevs takes a look at the W3C recommendation for HTML 5.1, looking at its major new features with some markup samples.

Up and Running with ESLint — the Pluggable JavaScript Linter

JavaScript

By Pavels Jelisejevs, September 20, 2016

Pavels Jelisejevs introduces ESLint, a highly configurable tool which analyses your code and highlights (or optionally fixes) any bugs or issues it finds.

Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS

HTML & CSS

By Pavels Jelisejevs, July 21, 2016

Pavels covers an increasingly important topic in front-end development — how to perform visual regression testing. The tool of choice? PhantomCSS.

Enabling Upcoming CSS Features with PostCSS

HTML & CSS

By Pavels Jelisejevs, June 21, 2016

Pavels continues his exploration of PostCSS, covering how to implement new properties and values from upcoming CSS specifications today using PostCSS.

The PostCSS Guide to Improving Selectors and Media Queries

HTML & CSS

By Pavels Jelisejevs, May 18, 2016

Pavels Jelisejevs looks at using PostCSS plugins to achieve some of the new upcoming CSS selector and media query features.