Quick summary: A project is about to fail. Everybody feels it won’t meet the hard deadline. But the app ended up released on time and bug-free. How is that possible?

I want to tell you the real story behind an ambitious two-month project my team completed, with a huge impact on our organization. A very stressful, challenging, and full of surprises journey, marked by developers being the leaders. I intend to reveal why things went bad and how with a proper smart set of decisions the front-end team managed to navigate its boat.

The Project

The project is intentionally interpreted mostly from…

This article is a mix of arguments, reality checks and a code solution at the end. Its focus: device (touch/desktop) driven code split in React with no backend.

Often the road leading to an actual implementation is long and bumpy — priorities, design, budget, colleagues with their own views, talking in different languages. These obstacles are challenging and usually take more energy to deal with than just coding. For that reason they deserve a separate preface here.

Jump to the code section, if this is what you are looking for, otherwise let’s continue.

It would be helpful if you already…

Using a <table /> element instead of flexbox for data presentation is a good thing. Wondering how to make a sticky table header with the help of React in that case? Wondering how to apply the solution into production code? This blog post is for you!

What follows is not a trivial tutorial on how you should solve the task. It is not a theory or fictional implementation, either. Instead, the focus is around a possible solution tested in real projects that you can easily reuse. It also sorts out some of the edge cases when working with <table />.

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