Frontend focused fullstack developer. React & Node dev 馃槉
Hi, in today's blog post we'll be building this: An intuitive debit card form. As you can see, it autofills as we type and most importantly the card flips to the back!! This is a really fun one to build and today we'll be using React (Create React ...
useCallback for those of you who may not know is a hook that let's us cache our functions. Now what that means if we can "save" the function. Let me break that down: When our components re-render React creates new functions, nothing in the function ...
useEffect is great, it's my absolute favourite Hook but it's got one major rule: BE HONEST ABOUT YOUR DEPENDENCIES. If you're dishonest your linting will kick in and yell at you. I know what you're thinking "what if I want to mimic ComponentDidMount"...
Hi, this is going to be a relatively short article. In it, i'm going to show the way I get dynamic routes in my React apps. If you've heard of dynamic routes they are basically routes or parts of routes that aren't hard coded in, the path is dynamic...
This is a follow up article to An Introduction to React Suspense, there I explained the general idea around Suspense and it's pivotal you read that first as Suspense plays a key part in code splitting An Introduction to React Suspense. So what is co...
You might have been hearing about Suspense for a while now and it isn't a relatively new feature as it shipped with React 16.6 but you just might not have gotten into it. No worries, I'm going to explain what Suspense is exactly. First I wanna disti...
Happy new year to everyone reading this, hope everyone had a great holiday. Today i'll explain what props are in React. Props are basically values a component expects to be given. So a component A for instance could have a name property and it could...
What are higher-order functions ? Higher-order functions simply put are functions that take in a function as an argument(referred to as callbacks) or functions that return a function. Let's split that up into the two parts and give examples. Taking...
Hi today i'm going to compare GitHub pages, Netlify and Heroku and see who comes out on top as the best solution for front-end developers to host. This is entirely my opinion from extensive use of the three options in the past few months.I'll be comp...
