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June 16, 2020 — In this article, we’re going to learn how to use Immer to write reducers. When working with React, we maintain a lot of state. To make updates to our state, we need to write a lot of reducers. Manually writing reducers results in bloated code where we have to touch almost every part of our state. This is tedious and error-prone. In this article, Chidi Orjil going to see how Immer brings more simplicity to the process of writing state reducers. Read more…

June 15, 2020 — With the right apps, working from home is a blessing for those with a disability. Working from home allows you to attend to your medical needs in ways that might be disruptive in an office, like running a nebulizer or using an IV. Or you may avoid the hassle of navigating a building that’s not truly accessible. In this article, Claudio Luis Vera explains what to keep in mind when choosing between video conferencing tools to benefit everyone on your team — including those with disabilities. Read more…

June 11, 2020 — In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun explains how to build a facial recognition web app with React by using the Face Recognition API, as well as the Face Detection model and Predict API. The app built in this article is similar to the face detection box on a pop-up camera in a mobile phone — it’s able to detect a human face in any image fetched from the Internet. Please note that you will need to know the fundamentals of React. Read more…

June 9, 2020 — To make the move from “site” to app, we’ll need to dive into the world of “app-generated” content. In this article, Bryan Robinson will get you started in this world with the power of serverless data. He’ll start with a simple demo by ingesting and posting data to FaunaDB and then extend that functionality in a full-fledged application using Auth0, FaunaDB’s Token system and User-Defined Functions. Read more…

June 8, 2020 — In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo is going to learn about higher-order components, the syntax of higher-order components, as well as use cases for them. In the process, you will build a higher-order component from an existing React component. By the end of this tutorial, you will understand the basics of higher-order components and how to build them. Read more…

June 1, 2020 — In this article, Chidi Orji will explore the concept of error boundaries in a React application. You’ll work through an example app to see how we can use error boundaries to deliver a better app experience. Finally, you’ll integrate Sentry into our error boundary for realtime error reporting. The only prerequisite is that you have some familiarity with React class components. Let’s dig in! Read more…

May 20, 2020 — Performance is a competitive advantage that can bring and retain customers. We can’t afford regularly spending time optimizing apps all over again. It’s costly, and complex. As a first step in coming up with a solution for any problem, we need to make the problem visible. In this article, Anton Nemtsev will help you with exactly that It’s not enough to optimize an application. You need to prevent performance from degradation, and the first step to do it is to make performance changes visible. In this article, Anton Nemtsev shows a couple of ways of showing them in the GitLab merge requests. Read more…

May 15, 2020 — A month is a long time to stay on top of things. In today’s monthly post, Iris Lješnjanin brings you an overview of everything we’ve been working on and have also enjoyed reading over the past month. Here at Smashing, we believe that is is now more important than ever to stay in touch and support each other. Behind the scenes, the team is working tirelessly on ways to keep the community connected, and oh boy do we have a lot of things in store for you! You didn’t really think we’d give up that easily, did you? Read more…

May 14, 2020 — React is a fantastic JavaScript library for building rich user interfaces. It provides a great component abstraction for organizing your interfaces into well-functioning code, but what about the look and feel of the app? There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries.  In this article, Shedrack Akintayo will explain the cons and pros of these styling strategies, and by the end of this tutorial, you’ll know all about styling React components and how they work along with the various methods that can be used for styling these components. Read more…

May 11, 2020 — In this article, Blessing Krofegha introduces Typescript, a superscript of JavaScript that presents the static type feature for spotting common errors as developers codes, which enhances performance, hence results in robust enterprise applications. You’ll also learn how to efficiently set up TypeScript in a React Project as we build a Money Heist Episode Picker App, exploring TypeScript, React hooks such as useReducer, useContext and Reach Router. Read more…