Luke Siedle

Redux & Redux Toolkit provides a powerful state management solution, especially when paired with Redux Saga. It also comes with advanced profiling to dig into state and debug issues. However, in many cases the built-in React Context is up to the task and minimises boilerplate.

Component libraries can be built in Storybook and not only emphasise reusability, but they also provide a consistent set of rules for user interfaces in an organisation.

WooCommerce can be a powerful tool but in many sites too many plugins and oversized images create a slow experience. In ecommerce, speed is everything. I develop on WooCommerce with this in mind and profile the website using Lighthouse to search for ways to improve loading speed.

Timber and Twig provide powerful templating that keeps a WordPress theme clean and maintainable. It also allows for much cleaner code reusability using Twig macros and blocks.

Automate all the things! I love doing this because it saves time and let's you focus on the fun stuff. Typically automation will involve an end-to-end build and deployment process, for example, building minified JavaScript and CSS files, and deploying the entire site to a host such as WP Engine or Kinsta. In the case of React apps, look no further than Vercel which takes care of most of this out the box.

Over the years I've dealt with plenty of configuration on AWS. Though I'd prefer to hand this over to a specialist who can whip up magical terraform scripts, I know my way around and can jump in and help whenever necessary.