Shedrack Akintayo is a software engineer from Lagos, Nigeria, who has a love for community building, open source and creating content and tech for the next billion users.
Since React was introduced, it has transformed the way front-end developers build web applications, and its virtual DOM is famous for effectively rendering components. In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo will discuss various methods of optimizing performance in React applications, and also the features of React that we can use to improve performance.
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In this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo is going to learn about higher-order components, the syntax of higher-order components, as well as use cases for them. In the process, you will build a higher-order component from an existing React component. By the end of this tutorial, you will understand the basics of higher-order components and how to build them.
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If you’re a React developer who’d like to learn how you can start consuming APIs in your React applications, then this article is for you. Consuming REST APIs in a React Application can be done in various ways, but in this tutorial, Shedrack Akintayo will be discussing how we can consume REST APIs using two of the most popular methods known as Axios and Fetch API. You will learn what a REST API is and how to build a simple application that consumes a REST API by using both Fetch API and Axios.
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React is a fantastic JavaScript library for building rich user interfaces. It provides a great component abstraction for organizing your interfaces into well-functioning code, but what about the look and feel of the app? There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries. In this article, Shedrack Akintayo will explain the cons and pros of these styling strategies, and by the end of this tutorial, you’ll know all about styling React components and how they work along with the various methods that can be used for styling these components.
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In this tutorial, you are going to learn and understand what React hooks are, the basic React Hooks that are available and also examples of how to write them for your React applications. In the process, you will also get to know about some additional hooks that were shipped with React 16.8 and also how to write your own custom React Hooks.
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