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Getting Query Strings (Search Params) in React Router
Reading Query Strings, otherwise known as Search Params, from the URL is a common practice in web application development and you’re going to learn...
Todd Motto
Nov 12, 2021
Redirect Default or 404 Routes with React Router
React Router provides the <Route> element for us to easily declare routes for rendering when a particular path matches in the URL. But let’s ...
Todd Motto
Nov 11, 2021
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Using Async Await Inside React's useEffect() Hook
In this post you’ll learn how to use an async function inside your React useEffect hook. Perhaps you’ve been using the good old Promise syntax with...
Todd Motto
Nov 10, 2021
Active NavLink Classes with React Router
React Router provides the <NavLink> element for us to declaratively navigate around our applications, it renders an <a href=""> for us ...
Todd Motto
Nov 9, 2021
Navigate to a URL with Query Strings (Search Params) in React Router
React Router has a useSearchParams hook to help us read or update the query string of a route that’s active, but it doesn’t allow us to transition ...
Todd Motto
Nov 7, 2021
Active Inline NavLink Styles with React Router
React Router provides the <NavLink> element for us to declaratively navigate around our applications, it renders an <a href=""> for us ...
Todd Motto
Nov 6, 2021
Handling 404 Routes in React with a Not Found component
In this post you’ll learn how to handle 404 routes in React Router and provide a fallback component for displaying an imfamous 404 Page Not Found e...
Todd Motto
May 25, 2020
Programmatically navigate with React Router (and Hooks)
In this post you’ll learn how programmatically navigate with React Router v5+ and the new useHistory hook!
Todd Motto
May 22, 2020
React DevTools: What is new in V4
The React Developer Tools has been the go to place in the browser to inspect and debug React applications. The good news is that recently it got ev...
Almero Steyn
Sep 27, 2019
Getting started with React and TypeScript
Among the heavy hitters in the frontend web application frameworks, React, by the lovely engineers at Facebook, is easily one of the most popular. ...
Todd Motto
Aug 26, 2019
React and JSX: The Importance of HTML Knowledge
When I first encountered JSX it was a bit of a shock. After years of separating HTML templates, we landed upon JSX and were suddenly enlightened to...
Almero Steyn
Aug 16, 2019
