CategoryReact

November 29, 2021 — One of Jhey’s main mantras is to make learning fun. In this article, he shows you ways to level up your skills by bringing your ideas to life, and not forgetting that you can be playful with code. With that mindset, every idea is bound to become an opportunity to try something new. It’s fun to make things that we may not create on a day-to-day basis. Demos like this can pose different challenges and can level up your problem-solving game! Read more…

November 12, 2021 — React class-based components are messy, confusing, hard for humans and machines. But before React 16.8, class-based components were mandatory for any projects that require states, life-cycle methods, and many other important functionalities. All these changed with the introduction of hooks in React 16.8. Hooks are game-changers. They have simplified React, made it neater, easier to write and debug, and also reduced the learning curve. Read more…

November 4, 2021 — Within the last decade, technologies like GraphQL have changed how we build web apps and how they communicate with each other. GraphQL provides certain benefits over REST APIs — let’s find out what they are. In this article, David Atanda will cover advanced topics to achieve real-time update of data using the update() function, subscription, and Optimistic UI. All in a bit to improve user experience. Read more…

October 26, 2021 — Nx is a build framework that facilitates optimization, efficient scaling of applications, and other features such as shared libraries and components. In this article, Melvin Kosisochukwu will be looking at how you can effectively scale Next.js applications by using Nx. If you’re a developer looking to optimize applications and create reuseable components across applications, this article is for you! Read more…

October 12, 2021 — React with JSX is a fantastic tool for making easy-to-use components. Typescript components make it an absolute pleasure for developers to integrate your components into their apps and explore your APIs. Learn about three lesser-known React APIs that can take your components to the next level, and help you build even better React Components in this article. Read more…

September 9, 2021 — When paired with ISR and Next.js’ API routes, SWR can be used to create a responsive user experience. In this article, Sam Poder explains what SWR is, where to use it (and where not), and how to build a website by using Incremental Static Regeneration. This approach ensures that users still have a good experience, that the site is fast and that the data is kept up to date. Read more…

August 27, 2021 — A compound component is one of the advanced patterns of React which makes use of an interesting way to communicate the relationship between UI components and share implicit state by leveraging an explicit parent-child relationship. In this article, Ichoku Chinoso will show you one of the advanced patterns of React which is the compound component pattern. It’s an awesome method to build reusable components in React by using the compound component pattern to build your component offers you a lot of flexibility in your component. Read more…

August 11, 2021 — Often you need two different sets of navigation stacks for pre and post user authentication. Usually, to see more content, you have to be authenticated in some way. In many Apps, authentication is one of the most important parts because it confirms that the person trying to gain access to protected content has the right to access the information. Learning how to do it right is an important step in building a great, intuitive, and easy to use/navigate the application. Let’s look at how to mount and unmount navigation stack based on a met condition in React Native. Read more…

August 4, 2021 — In this article, we’ll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React children and the ways to do it. In particular, we will deep dive into one of the utility methods, React.Children.toArray, that React gives us, which helps to iterate over the children in a way which ensures performance and determinism. Read more…

July 27, 2021 — Next.js has strong opinions about how to organize JavaScript but not CSS. How can we develop patterns that encourage best CSS practices while also following the framework’s logic? The answer is surprisingly simple — to write well-structured CSS that balances global and local styling concerns. In this article, Alexander Dubovoy will build a website (a tea shop!) to demonstrate these patterns. Read more…