As a developer, I’ve often hit a specific roadblock. Sometimes, a specialized team builds a complex dashboard in Angular, and you need that exact functionality in your React-based consumer app. I remember once needing to port a complex mortgage calculator built in Angular into a new React portal for a California-based lender. That is when … Read more >>
I’ve found that managing form data is one of the most frequent tasks you’ll face. In the early days, I struggled with keeping the UI in sync with the underlying data, but then I mastered controlled components. If you have ever wondered how to handle user input efficiently in a React application, you are in … Read more >>
In React, data usually flows downwards from a parent component to a child component through props. While passing strings or numbers is easy, there are many cases where you need to pass a function to a child component. I have spent over eight years building complex React applications, and I can tell you that mastering … Read more >>
If you have been building React applications for a while, you know that JavaScript is incredibly flexible. However, that flexibility often leads to “undefined is not a function” errors right when you least expect them. I have spent over eight years architecting React apps, and I can tell you from experience that moving to TypeScript … Read more >>
If you are coming from a traditional programming background, your first instinct is likely to reach for a for loop when you need to repeat a task. In React, things work a little differently because we are often dealing with JSX, which requires us to return values that can be rendered to the screen. Over … Read more >>
In my eight years of developing React applications, one of the most frequent tasks I’ve faced is managing user access. Whether it is a private dashboard for a US-based fintech app or a secure medical portal, you need a way to keep unauthorized users out. In this tutorial, I will show you exactly how I … Read more >>
In my experience of building React applications, one of the most common hurdles I see developers face is handling asynchronous data. It sounds simple enough: you want to fetch some data and show it on the screen. But if you’ve ever tried to put an await directly inside your functional component, you know things get … Read more >>
I have spent some years building complex web applications, and if there is one UI element I get asked for constantly, it is the toggle switch. Whether you are building a settings page for a SaaS platform or a dark mode trigger for a blog, a well-designed toggle switch is essential. In this tutorial, I … Read more >>
Have you ever spent hours trying to get a simple modal or a multi-select dropdown to look just right in React? I have been developing React applications for years and have tried almost every UI library out there, from Material UI to Tailwind. A few months ago, I discovered Mantine, and it completely changed how … Read more >>
Markdown is the industry standard for writing content quickly, but standard HTML output is often too boring for modern web applications. I have spent years building documentation portals and blogs where I needed my Markdown to do more than just display bold text and headers. If you are using react-markdown, you probably already know it … Read more >>