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Build a Chat App Using React Hooks in 100 Lines of Code
15.7.2019
We’ve looked at React Hooks before, around here at CSS-Tricks. I have an article that introduces them as well that illustrates how to use them to create components through functions. Both articles are good high-level overviews about the way they work, but they open up a lot of possibilities...
Facebook’s Libra Lacks Foundational Components for Crypto Key Security
7.7.2019
After a review of documentation for the Libra protocol and its planned ecosystem, Steven Sprague believes Facebook left out key security components
Haunted: Hooks for Web Components
3.7.2019
I was just chatting with Dave and he told me about Haunted. It's hooks, but for native web components! Pretty cool. I think the existence of stuff like this makes using web components more and more palatable — particularly in that totally-native no-build-step-needed-at-all kinda way.
I...
React Starter: How does JSX make HTML elements?
3.7.2019
JSX makes making React components easier. Some may find JSX to have a high learning curve and that's totally understandable. It's not exactly HTML and it's not exactly JavaScript, so it can take so
Why I don’t use web components
25.6.2019
Here’s an interesting post by Rich Harris where he’s made a list of some of the problems he’s experienced in the past with web components and why he doesn’t use them today:
Given finite resources, time spent on one task means time not spent on another task. Considerable energy has been expended...
Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two
21.6.2019
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture> element with <source media=""> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting reply from Michael Gale:
What about folks who love...
Managing State in React using Unstated-Next
17.6.2019
In a previous post, we saw how to manage state using Unstated. As you might recall, Unstated uses React’s built-in setState to allow you create components that can consume state by subscribing to a provider — like the React’s Context API.
Well, we’re going to build off that last post by looking...
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Creating the Question Modal
17.6.2019
Create a folder named question-modal within the src/components directory and a file index.js within it. Open the file and update it with the snippet below:
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Create The Questions component
17.6.2019
Let’s create the Questions component, open the src/components/questions/index.js file and update the file with the following:
// src/componen
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Single Question Component
17.6.2019
Create a folder called question within the src/components directory and a file index.js within it. Open the file and copy the following into the file:
Components, yo.
14.6.2019
I see VuePress just went 1.0. Explained simply, it's a static site generator based on Vue. But of course, you work in Vue, which means you work in components.
All the modern JavaScript frameworks are component-based. Even when they disagree with each other about specific things (like how Svelte...
10 React Challenges (Beginner): Render Props
14.6.2019
Render Props allows React components to share reusable or customizable interfaces as functions through props.
In this react challenge, we will render 3 different cards with a single card com
10 React Challenges (Beginner): Use Context to Pass Data
14.6.2019
Data in React applications is usually passed to components, via props. By using props, data is sent from parent to child components.
Passing da
Building a UI Component with React and Storybook
11.6.2019
In the previous article, I gave an Introduction to Storybook and how it can be used to or
10 React Challenges (Beginner): Recreate Layout with Components
5.6.2019
Components are the building blocks of React Applications, and each is a JavaScript function. These components comprise of Parent and Child components.
Data is passed from parent to child thr
Detect if Element is a Web Component
5.6.2019
I’ve advocated for web components since before they became a spec, mostly inspired by the Dojo Toolkit’s dijit framework. Empowering first class JavaScript widgets, as opposed to a mess of DIVs and templates, always made the most sense. Now that web components exist, and awesome...
Class Components in Vue are No Longer Happening
30.5.2019
An upcoming Vue update was set to have classes implemented. In React and Angular, we can create components u
10 React Challenges (Beginner): DOM Movement with Events
20.5.2019
Styling elements or in some instances, components in a React project is essential. Sometimes, you need to make a change in the style of an element bas
Iterating a React Design with Styled Components
16.5.2019
In a perfect world, our projects would have unlimited resources and time. Our teams would begin coding with well thought out and highly refined UX designs. There would be consensus among developers about the best way to approach styling. There’d be one or more CSS gurus on the team who could ensure...
10 React Challenges (Beginner): Display Simple Data with JSX
10.5.2019
One of the building blocks of React is the ability to use HTML elements when developing components.
JSX allows us to write simple markup in HT