This week on the React Wednesday show on the CodeItLive channel on Twitch we spoke with the team behind Realize – a set of browser extensions that visualize React State and Component Hierarchy in React apps. Using Realize will help React developers build React applications faster because the developer can be surer about exactly what…
Our firm specializes in helping organizations use React well in enterprise contexts. We spoke about enterprise application development and React with TJ VanToll from the Kendo React team at Telerik on CodeItLive. You can find the recording on React in the Enterprise here. Update: Since this article was posted, we’ve since done shows with: Răzvan Dragomir,…
Visualizing React state flow and component hierarchy While we may have a good understanding of the theory behind how components render and state flows, there are, at times, divergences in the theoretical and practical. I wish I had a dollar each time I “knew” something to be true, turned out not to be so. Many…
useState or useReducer? Choosing the right hook is an important architecture choice. While useState and useReducer have similarities, they fit best in certain cases. If you are confused about which one is the best to use, ask, does the element of state you are manipulating depend on other elements of state, or is it independent?…
Have you seen these two errors in your console? “TypeError destroy is not a function” “An effect function must not return anything besides a function, which is used for clean-up.” As you know, useEffect is a React hook that allows us to run additional side effect code once React has updated the DOM. In cases where side…