This article is available in video format. Fewer details, but nice animations and voice instead of letters 😉 Every time I think I surely know everything about how React renders components, the universe finds a way to surprise me. Something as innocent as a simple if statement can completely blow…

Originally published at https://www.developerway.com. The website has more articles like this 😉 Let’s talk a bit more about DOM access in React. In the previous article (Refs in React: from access to DOM to imperative API) we covered how to do it with Ref, and learned everything about Ref as…

Originally published at https://www.developerway.com. The website has more articles like this 😉 One of the many beautiful things about React is that it abstracts away the complexity of dealing with real DOM. Now, instead of manually querying elements, scratching our heads over how to add classes to those elements, or…

Originally published at https://www.developerway.com. The website has more articles like this 😉 We all want our apps to be stable, to work perfectly, and cater to every edge case imaginable, isn’t it? But the sad reality is we are all humans (at least that is my assumption), we all make…

Originally published at https://www.developerway.com. The website has more articles like this 😉 When talking about performance in general, and especially in React, the words “immediate”, “fast”, “as soon as possible” instantly come to mind. Is it always true though? Contrary to common wisdom, sometimes it’s actually good to slow down…

Originally published at https://www.developerway.com. The website has more articles like this 😉 How would you like to be a bad guy? Some evil genius of frontend development who can write seemingly innocent code, which will pass all the tests and code reviews, but will cause the actual app to behave…

Originally published at https://www.developerway.com. The website has more articles like this 😉 Have you tried recently to wrap your head around what’s the latest on data fetching in React? I tried. Almost lost my mind in the process. The chaos of endless data management libraries, GraphQL or not GraphQL, recent…

When I look back at just one year ago, I can’t believe it was real. It was the middle of Australia’s toughest covid lockdown with no hope or end in sight, everyone in Sydney was on a 5 km leash, and I was preparing to yet again turn my life…

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