Hooked on Hooks: Portfolio Madness
A theme, a static site generator, and an animation library walk into a bar…
react
Piping in a Node API from Glitch to a React Frontend
Creating the frontend was the hardest part for me.
Not because I am unfamiliar with React per se, but consuming APIs in a React app
was new to me.
All of this time programming and I have very little experience with the Fetch
API1 though I am rewriting my Wikipedia
Three Ways to Pass Props to Components Outside of Parent/Child Relationships
> It is really late here on the East Coast but I have been wanting to get this out
for weeks now. If there are any errors or wrong examples/logic, you can edit
this post on GitHub. All suggestions welcome.
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React excels at urging users to use a to
What Are Components and Props?
In order to understand how React renders the UI, we need to understand two
crucial elements to a React application: components and props. Each of these
elements allow you to reuse pieces of your application and think about each
piece in isolation of the others.
What Are Components?
Components are
What Is React Reconciliation?
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> This is an update to this article because of input by Dan Abramov. Thanks Dan!
In order for React to be as fast as it is, it only needs to update the parts of
the DOM that need it. You really don’t need
How to Bind this in React Without a Constructor
this in React is a reference to the current component. Usually this in React is
bound to its built-in methods so that when you want to update state or use an
event handler on a form, you could do something like this:
where this.someInput is passing state to whichever