CategoryReact

June 24, 2020 — Building a well-functioning application requires good testing; otherwise, knowing whether your application works as expected would be a matter of guesswork and luck. Jest is one of the best tools available for testing React applications. In this article, you will learn everything you need to create a solid test for your React components and application. Read more…

June 22, 2020 — In this article, we’ll be looking at a new way of retrieving data in React Apps named SWR. This is a set of hooks for remote data fetching that makes things easier, such as caching, pagination, and so on. Read more…

June 16, 2020 — When working with React, we maintain a lot of state. To make updates to our state, we need to write a lot of reducers. In this article, we’re going to learn how to use Immer to write reducers, and more. Read more…

June 16, 2020 — In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about learning React. What’s React like to work with, and how can experienced developers get started? Drew McLellan chats to Mina Markham to find out. Read more…

June 11, 2020 — In this article, we will build a facial recognition web app with the help of React and the Face Recognition API, and cover the Face Detection model and Predict API. Read more…

June 8, 2020 — In this tutorial, we are going to learn about higher-order components, the syntax of higher-order components, as well as use cases for them. In the process, we will build a higher-order component from an existing React component. Read more…

June 3, 2020 — If you’re a React developer who’d like to learn how you can start consuming APIs in your React applications, then this article is for you. Shedrack Akintayo explains what a REST API is and how to build a simple application that consumes a REST API by using both Fetch API and Axios. Read more…

June 1, 2020 — In this article, we’ll explore the concept of error boundaries in a React application. We’ll work through an example app to see how we can use error boundaries to deliver a better app experience. Finally, we’ll integrate Sentry into our error boundary for realtime error reporting. Read more…

May 25, 2020 — Tailwind is a popular utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level class names to web developers. In this article, we’ll explore ways to build reusable React components using Tailwind. Read more…

May 18, 2020 — In this article, based on my experience with creating a GPS and navigation application, I will show you how to create a mobile app using Expo and Firebase services such as Firestore, Firebase functions and Expo push notifications. Read more…