Innhold om React

React is no fun without some data to display or APIs to connect to. Let's dive in to how you can set up some serverless functions for all those times you wished you had a backend.

Testing your apps is becoming so easy, it's starting to become worth the trouble!

Design is complex - and ever increasingly so. It requires full collaboration between all teams and professions involved in the process. A shared design language makes teams work together more effectively. That’s why companies invest in design systems. But how can we make sure that it works for our product and improves our productivity?

Having great documentation is what differentiates a great library from an ok one. I've spent the last couple of months creating a design system and its documentation site in Docz, and I'd like to share some experiences.

People like to understand what's happening around them, whether it's in real life or in an app on their phone. Let us have a little peak into how we can help users of our React Native app.

Hi, my name is Marte and I decided five montsh ago that I wanted to pursue a career within front-end development to get closer to the products and users. At that point in time I was working with strategy and business development, which I also studied for six years. The journey that has led me from being a management consultant to a developer has been filled with confusion, feeling of achievement, stupid questions, not so stupid questions, bad code and good code. And it is true what they say; the learning curve is steep! I will take you through some of the learnings I have encountered during my first months as a developer.

About a year ago, Sophie Alpert and Dan Abramov presented one of the most exciting new features in React: Hooks. Release 16.8 introduced several alternatives that can be used directly (e.g. useState, useEffect and some others), but also provided the possibility to create your very own hooks – Custom Hooks.

Say you want to add a nice chart or other form of data visualization to your React app, but don't have the slightest idea of where to start. Do you write it from scratch, or do you utilize one of the many charting libraries out there? You might begin by researching d3 since it's one of the most popular data viz libraries for javascript, but you quickly get overwhelmed by the myriads of customization options and the steep learning curve. You probably don't even need all the bells and whistles that come included with it. My advice? Take a look at one of the slickest and most enjoyable charting libraries you're likely to come across this christmas - Victory.

Do you really know how your users are interacting with your application? Have they tried out the latest feature you just deployed to production? Examining your user’s behaviour and interaction can be tremendously useful - figuring out where they incur problems or halt a purchase, where in the onboarding process most people fall off, how long time they spend on certain pages, or even just where on the site they’re located, are all valuable information for the further improvement and development of your website.

A quick and easy guide to creating components that control their own state, if you want them to.

What is lazy loading, and why should you do it?

For quite some time, Redux has been React developers go-to library for managing their app’s global state. It’s a great tool – but do you really need it?

Content management done the right way 🤷‍♂️