React Material-UI: a FAB with an optional tooltip

I’m using Material UI library to have Material Design components on a rather complex React project. Despite being good, this library unfortunately doesn’t provide a tooltip option to the Float Action Button, something I need at the moment.

I found some useful information on this project issue, and after digging into the code of IconButton – which has a tooltip option – and Tooltip itself, I wrote a component that provides a Float Action Button with an optional tooltip:

The icon is ready to be used with Font Awesome project, which is what I’m using. Other minor adjustments I made, like font size, can just be removed too. And my project requirements are web only, so that’s all I tested.

Extending native objects in create-react-app

Despite being considered a bad practice by some, I like to extend native objects to add some syntatic sugar. However, when working in a React project with create-react-app, I receive the following ESLint error:

Array prototype is read only, properties should not be added  no-extend-native

Fortunately this warning can be disabled by adding a comment in the file where you extend the native object. Putting it all together, this is what I’ve got:

/*eslint no-extend-native: ["error", { "exceptions": ["Array"] }]*/
Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, 'last', {
  get: function() {
    return this[this.length - 1];
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, 'empty', {
  get: function() {
    return this.length === 0;
  }
});

Syntatic sugar added, clear console.

Absolute imports with create-react-app

When developing React using create-react-app with custom-react-scripts, I wanted to use absolute paths for import, and I found this: just adding NODE_PATH=src/ to “.env” file. It worked on Windows, but not on Linux.

After a while, I sorted it out: echo $NODE_PATH told me that my Linux had NODE_PATH being set somewhere. Then, being conservative, I just added unset NODE_PATH to “~/.bashrc” file, and it finally worked.

JavaScript development is a nightmare these days.

Google Chrome 61 slow, how to fix

After updating to Chrome 61, I instantly noticed that YouTube became slow, and Google Maps – particularly Street View – became so slow it’s unusable. I went back to Firefox Developer 57, but then I missed Chrome’s search capabilities.

I found out that the problem is the HTML5 canvas, and the fix is rather easy: just disable this flag in Chrome flag page:

chrome://flags/#enable-color-correct-rendering

Instantly all the sites became responsive again.