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I'm impatient I've done this too many times: // api call to get the contact Luke Skywalker // process a little data return ( <Card> <Card.Title>{person.name}</Card.Title> </Card> ) just to get a lovely Can't read property 'name' of undefined error. Yuck. I fire up the dev console... Network tab, is the API returning data? ✅.... Continue Reading →
In a previous post I shared an approach to enhance reducer actions in your React Context. I've worked through this a few times and found one thing this approach doesn't have that something like Redux does: the logger. Well, there's a separate library for logging called redux-logger. This nifty little piece of middleware writes out... Continue Reading →
State management in ReactJS is uber important, and there is a plethora of content in the wild about how best to do this: from libraries like Redux to using useState in a component. React also has this neat little useReducer hook for using a reducer in your component. This follows the typical reducer pattern of... Continue Reading →
If you haven't seen, at the start of COVID I created this neat little virtual happy hour app. I got to the point where I wanted to start spicing up the interface some (still a long way to go). I wanted to move away from a list view of conversations to something that illustrates people... Continue Reading →
It's been an eternity, technology speaking, since we received a major upgrade on ReactJS. The React team has announced v17 Release Candidate: The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-facing features.https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/08/10/react-v17-rc.html This release comes with no new features. New upgrades are always shined up with new hot features, right? What... Continue Reading →
Updated May 5, 2020 to include Okta React library 3.0 The @okta/okta-react library is fantastic. It makes working with Okta authentication really easy in ReactJS. It helps streamline managing the user's authentication including their tokens. You don't even have to create a log in component on your app, users can be redirected to Okta to... Continue Reading →
