Tag Archives: react

create-es-react-app – A create-react-app like template using only es-modules (no build step).

create-es-react-app is a create-react-app like template demonstrating how far you can get creating progressive web apps (using react) with no build step. It takes advantage of static and dynamic imports which enables you to break up your app into small reusable ES modules that are compiled for you by the browser at run time. TIL: […]

React Hooks: When to useMemo and useCallback

Insightful post by Kent C. Dodds on the costs and benefits of React’s useMemo and useCallback. We hear a lot that you should use React.useCallback to improve performance and that “inline functions can be problematic for performance,” so how could it ever be better to not useCallback? Just take a step back from React and […]

useDimensions – a React Hook to measure DOM nodes

import React from 'react' import useDimensions from 'react-use-dimensions' const MeasuredNode = () => { const [ref, { x, y, width, height }] = useDimensions(); return ( <p ref={ref}> I am a paragraph at ({x}px, {y}px) position with a width of {width}px and height of {height}px </p> ); }; Handy. Uses window.resize+window.scroll internally, yet I’m quite […]

Making sense of React’s useEffect

Today Dan Abramov published an extensive deep dive into useEffect. The issue that many devs (who, including me, have been using componentDidMount before) are having, is that they now need to unlearn a few things It’s only after I stopped looking at the useEffect Hook through the prism of the familiar class lifecycle methods that […]

Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks

Dan Abramov’s blog Overreacted is pure gold and contains a ton of information. Take today’s post “Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks” for example, in which he explains why setInterval and Hooks (which should be released in today’s planned React 16.8 release) don’t play that nice together out of the box. // This won’t work […]

useHooks(🐠) – Easy to understand React Hook recipes

Hooks are an upcoming feature that lets you use state and other React features without writing a class. This websites provides easy to understand code examples to help you understand how hooks work and hopefully inspire you to take advantage of them in your next project. useHooks(🐠) → 💁‍♂️ Not familiar with Hooks? The announcement […]