The Fastest Way I’ve Found to Build a Solid UI Without a Designer
The experience-based workflow I use to turn product requirements into a polished, usable interface quickly when design support is limited.
Open to senior software and product engineering opportunities.
Product-minded Senior Software Engineer.
I’m João Forja. I build and shape software products end to end, combining deep frontend expertise with product judgment, design collaboration, backend delivery, and applied AI. Outside work, I train Brazilian jiu-jitsu and surf.
Based in Faro, Portugal. Available for remote opportunities.
Recent writing
Practical notes on React, testing, and software design.
How to write fewer tests but find more bugs in your React components
It's not always obvious which tests we should be writing for our React components. One way to solve this problem is to use a combination of Input Space Partitioning and Whitebox testing to guide us during the process.
Guideline from the 70's on how to split your React components
It's not always obvious how to decompose a React component. This article explains a guideline you can use to validate a decomposition.
Testing and developing with React and TS: Data structures (part 1)
Learn about: testing, relying on TypeScript to improve correctness, and modeling data-structures while building a multilevel-list React component. In this part, we'll focus on modeling the underlying data structure to support the multilevel-list component.
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