Monthly Archives: February 2019

Not to be confused with Lifecycle Hooks, Hooks were introduced in React in v16.7.0-alpha, and a proof of concept was released for Vue a few days after. Even though it was proposed by React, it’s actually an important composition mechanism that has benefits across JavaScript framework ecosystems, so we’ll spend a little time today discussing what this means.

Mainly, Hooks offer a more explicit way to think of reusable patterns — one that avoids rewrites to the components themselves … Read article

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I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it’s not used that much — at least partially — and probably because it’s a bit weird to understand.

I like how Elad explains it with a “Sticky Item” and a … Read article

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Most web applications built today receive data from an API. When fetching that data, we have to take certain situations into consideration where the data might not have been received. Perhaps it was a lost connection. Maybe it was the endpoint was changed. Who knows. Whatever the issue, it’s the end user who winds up with a big bag of nothing on the front end.

So we ought to account for that!

The common way of handling this is … Read article

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