React is a focused component library. So it has no opinion on how to request remote data. If you’re requesting and sending data to web APIs via HTTP, here are four options to consider.
Let’s … Read on...
A poorly-designed solution may seem impressive. Why? Because it’s complex and unapproachable. So it looks like it was hard to build.
A well-designed solution may seem unimpressive. Why? Because it’s simple, and approachable. So it looks like it was easy … Read on...
While preparing my upcoming Pluralsight course “Managing React State”, I found a surprising number of React state management options.
This slide from the upcoming course summarizes eight ways to handle state in React apps:
Throughout the course, I build a … Read on...
Here’s a question I’ve heard a few times recently:
“What if we create a component library in React/Vue/Angular/whatever and a new component technology replaces it?”
That’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when. These technologies have become … Read on...
Today many web apps are built using React, Angular, Vue, Ember, etc. These modern client-side rendered apps often call web APIs that are hosted on separate servers. This creates a problem: how do … Read on...
React is a component library. So React makes it easy to break your UI down into composable pieces. The question is, how granular should the pieces be?
Let’s consider a … Read on...
There are three popular ways to handle types in React: PropTypes, TypeScript and Flow. This post is about PropTypes, which are currently the most popular.
Since PropTypes provide type warnings at runtime, it’s helpful … Read on...
Imagine your team just deployed an amazing todo list app. A month later, another team in your company wants to run your todo app within their invoice app.
So now you need to run your todo app in two spots:… Read on...
A Call For Speakers…From 40,000 Feet
I’m writing this from a bar…that’s floating somewhere over Greenland. I just enjoyed a complimentary 3 course meal with wine, cheesecake, tea, and Baileys to top things off. After lunch, I finished editing my … Read on...
A decade ago, nearly everyone was rendering their web applications on the server using technologies like ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, Java, and PHP.
Then handy libraries like jQuery showed up, and suddenly server-side rendering everything didn’t necessarily make sense anymore. … Read on...
