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Explore the component-based React library and industry best-practices.

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Programmatically navigate with React Router

Declarative or Imperative? That is the question. React Router’s latest update saw a huge shift towards a routing library more aligned with the core...

Todd Motto

Todd Motto

Aug 8, 2024

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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.

Todd Motto

Todd Motto

May 9, 2022

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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

Todd Motto

Nov 12, 2021

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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

Todd Motto

Nov 11, 2021

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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

Todd Motto

Nov 9, 2021

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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

Todd Motto

Nov 7, 2021

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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

Todd Motto

Nov 6, 2021

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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

Todd Motto

May 25, 2020

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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

Almero Steyn

Sep 27, 2019

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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

Todd Motto

Aug 26, 2019

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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

Almero Steyn

Aug 16, 2019