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Creating Interactive Product Pages With React and Cloudinary
6.9.2021
With Cloudinary and React, create low-bandwidth, interactive product pages for e-commerce on which shoppers can specify sizes, colors, and custom text.
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Accessing Your Data With Netlify Functions and React
2.9.2021
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Static site generators are popular for their speed, security, and user experience. However, sometimes your application needs data that is not available when the site is built. React is a library for building user …
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Native JavaScript Routing?
23.8.2021
We can update the URL in JavaScript. We’ve got these APIs:
// Adds to browser history
history.pushState({}, "About Page", "/about");
// Doesn't
history.replaceState({}, "About Page", "/about");
JavaScript is also capable of replacing any content in the DOM....
React usePrevious Hook
23.8.2021
Hooks are essential for the functional component pattern in React. One frequent logic comparison with class components was comparing a previous prop value with a current prop value via lifecycle methods. So what’s an easy pattern for duplicating previous value comparisons in functional...
Three Buggy React Code Examples and How to Fix Them
5.8.2021
There’s usually more than one way to code a thing in React. And while it’s possible to create the same thing different ways, there may be one or two approaches that technically work “better” than others. I actually run into …
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Links on React and JavaScript
13.7.2021
As a day-job, React-using person, I like to stay abreast of interesting React news. As such, I save a healthy amount of links. Allow me to dump out my latest pile. Most of this is about React but not all …
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Fix Seeing “0” in Your JSX Code
9.7.2021
The early days of the web felt like the wild west when it came to coding practices — just make it work. Then we became enlightened to better practices, separating HTML from CSS and JavaScript. Then came React and JSX, where we combine JavaScript, HTML, and even CSS with Styled Components...
Hack the “Deploy to Netlify” Button Using Environment Variables to Make a Customizable Site Generator
1.7.2021
If you’re anything like me, you like being lazy shortcuts. The “Deploy to Netlify” button allows me to take this lovely feature of my personality and be productive with it.
Clicking the button above lets me (or you!) instantly …
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Svelte for the Experienced React Dev
21.5.2021
This post is an accelerated introduction to Svelte from the point of view of someone with solid experience with React. I’ll provide a quick introduction, and then shift focus to things like state management and DOM interoperability, among other things. …
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Workshop Efektivní vývoj v Reactu pro pokročilé
14.5.2021
Odteď už Vás React v ničem nepřekvapí. Nový workshop, díky kterému ovládnete React na maximum, je na světě! Pro příznivce Reactu jsme připravili praktický online workshop na téma „Efektivní vývoj v Reactu pro…
React authentication, simplified
4.3.2021
Authentication is one of those things that just always seems to take a lot more effort than we want it to. To set up auth, you have to re-research topics you haven’t thought about since the last time you did authentication, and the fast-paced nature of the space means things have often changed...
React Without Build Tools
3.3.2021
Jim Nielsen:
I think you’ll find it quite refreshing to use React A) with a JSX-like syntax, and B) without any kind of build tooling.
Refreshing indeed:
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It’s not really the React that’s the hard part …
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React Component Tests for Humans
23.2.2021
React component tests should be interesting, straightforward, and easy for a human to build and maintain.
Yet, the current state of the testing library ecosystem is not sufficient to motivate developers to write consistent JavaScript tests for React components. Testing …
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Use CSS Variables instead of React Context
19.2.2021
Turns out you can use several different libraries to pass color information around components. Or, you could use custom properties, built right into CSS, have no decline in your own developer experience, and deliver a faster experience to your users. …
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Some React Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
5.2.2021
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later — Ryan Carniato considers hooks to be the most significant turning point in front end in the past five years, but he also says hooks have muddied the waters as well.
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Theming and Theme Switching with React and styled-components
7.1.2021
I recently had a project with a requirement to support theming on the website. It was a bit of a strange requirement, as the application is mostly used by a handful of administrators. An even bigger surprise was that they …
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Make Your Own Tools
4.1.2021
Spencer Miskoviak on the Wealthfront blog:
By creating custom DevTools specific to an app, they can operate at an even higher abstraction to handle things like user interactions, or debugging tracking events. While this requires building and maintaining the
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Recreating a Dave Whyte Animation in React-Three-Fiber
17.12.2020
Learn how to use instanced rendering and post-processing techniques to recreate a hypnotic looping animation with react-three-fiber.
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React.isValidElement
14.12.2020
Knowing what input type you’ve received is hugely important in JavaScript, which is a big reason for Flow and TypeScript’s rise. One such case where it’s useful to know what an object represents is if the input is a string or a React element. To detect if an object is a React...
Creating UI Components in SVG
24.11.2020
I’m thoroughly convinced that SVG unlocks a whole entire world of building interfaces on the web. It might seem daunting to learn SVG at first, but you have a spec that was designed to create shapes and yet, still has elements, like text, links, and aria labels available to you. You can accomplish...