TWIL November 28th 2025

• Sometimes you just need to rm -rf the repo and start over
  • but you shouldn't do this with a fair chunk of work on a branch that doesn't exist on remote
  • and you definitely shouldn't do it twice in the same week
  • to the same branch
• Vite handles styles in dev (at least the ones you import in your components) by adding them as inline style tags
  • this can lead to very annoying and confusing CSS issues
  • and if it does, that's probably a hint your CSS isn't very well scoped
  • should probably make a PR to our theme management library introducing layers/a layer, to avoid issues like this in the future
• We originally had a gem which provided a react_component helper to mount React components in our views
  • but it's entirely possible to just write your own partial/entrypoint implementing the same idea
• Pinning internal dependencies to a tag is a very good idea
  • leaving the package.json entry just pointing at the repo is not
  • because if you make a (breaking) change to the internal dependency, then make an unrelated deploy, guess which version of the dependency CI pulls in

Links

• How to fix any bug - Dan Abramov

A nice breakdown of the steps and thought that go into making a bug reproducible so it can be fixed, something I skip over to my detriment far too often.