Structuring an app is like building a house 🏡 There are many decisions to make, many views, many perspectives. Folder structure also plays a vital role. The mind is flooded with questions like where this folder/file should reside? Which place it should go to? What should be the name of the folder, file, component, hook or context?
It’s the developer way of life 💻
I normally choose the create-react-app to create a react app as it’s easy to kick-start development in no time & all the tools 🛠 like basic CSS file, build scripts, basic testing framework & PWA are…
I use styled-system to pair with styled-components. It makes the Component Orient Design lifestyle easy 😊 The style functions API of the styled-system exposes powerful props and with that leverage, it makes the styled-components even more powerful 💪 and we can use those props…
People assume that being in any industry for more than a few years one should know just about everything. That’s so not true! In this post, I am listing out the things which I’m not aware of or currently learning.
ls
, cd
and the world-famous rm -rf
Can manage with grep but for everything else, I’ve to lookup.Hooks were a new addition in the release of React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class component.
The useEffect hook lets you perform side effects in function components
The useEffect hook is the Jack of all trades 👑 of the hooks. It’s the combination of componentDidMount
, componentDidUpdate
and componentWillUnmount
. It's used for fetching the data when a component mounts, execute stuff when state or props change, Clean up stuff when the component unmounts. This useEffect hook can be really confusing 💡 until you understand or know how it works.
In this article…
Gatsby offers out of the box support to write the content in markdown and create pages easily in your app and with the leverage of many Gatsby Plugins, we can do many things like format code snippets, lazy load images, generating an RSS feed, creating a Sitemap, making SEO easier and a lot more 🥳
Writing a blog post in markdown is easier, no need to worry about styling, # makes H1, ## makes H2, the normal text makes a paragraph, adding links, images and so on.
But how to style the markdown content when the pages are generated, the…
GitHub Pages is a website holder for you & your projects. You can host your code directly from your GitHub repo. This article will help you how to manage your app in the master
branch and deploy the code in the gh-pages
branch easily.
You can choose any front-end framework like React, Vue, Gatsby, Next, Nuxt, Gridsome, and build the app in the master branch and build the code using the npm run build
command and host directly using the gh-pages
branch.
The quickest way to put your app to GitHub Pages is by using a package — gh-pages.
npm…
Write about your experience, learnings about JavaScript 💛. JSE will provide a home for your article 🥳
If you’re interested in writing for a publication, please get in touch by sending an email to Chetan at jsessentials3@gmail.com with your name and your Medium username and I will add you as a writer or you can send a DM on Instagram as well.
Recoil works and thinks like React.
Recoil is an experimental state management system for React by Facebook. It offers several out of the box abilities which are difficult to achieve with React ⚛️ alone.
Recoil lets you create a data-flow graph that flows from atoms through selectors and down into your React components.
Recoil helps you eliminate the unnecessary re-renders which happens while using the Context API or Redux.
Consider a scenario where an app is using the Context API when the state in the context is changed, all the components in which even the data is not changed will…
The optional chaining operator ?.
permits reading the value of a property located deep within a chain of connected objects.
Optional chaining was introduced as part of the ES2020 standard.
It changes the way we access the properties from the deep objects. Optional chaining makes your code look cleaner.
Consider this piece of code, where the data object has a query and an answer to the query.
To access the value
, you have to write a long conditional statement which is difficult to read and format 😢
But with optional chaining, you can access the value
easily 😃 and you…
The context path is the prefix of a URL path that is used to select the context(s) to which an incoming request is passed.
Context path is also known as sub-path or sub-directory
Many apps are hosted at something other than the root (/) of their domain. For example, My personal blog is live at [https://chetanraj.in/blog,](https://chetanraj.in/blog) or you can host your site on GitHub Pages at https://example.github.io/blog.
Each of these sites need a prefix added to all paths on the site. So a link to a blog which is having the slug “/features-in-es6/” should be rewritten as “/blog/features-in-es6.”
In addition…