In this article, Abdulazeez Adeshina will show you what storybook is about and how to use it to build and test React components by building a simple application. He’ll start with a basic example that shows how to work with storybook, then will go ahead to create a storybook for a Table component which will hold students’ data. You should have basic knowledge of React and the use of NPM before proceeding with this article, as you’ll be building a handful of React components.
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MobX is a battle-tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming. It treats your application like a spreadsheet, and it’s one of the many state management tools available to React developers. In this tutorial, Fortune Ikechi is going to show you how to use MobX to manage state in React Native applications by building a React Native application to see how this is done.
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Ionic Framework provides first-class support for building fast and mobile-optimized applications for any platform using React. In this tutorial, Jerry Navi will show you how to build forms using Ionic React’s UI input components in this tutorial. You will also learn how to use a library to help with detecting form input changes and responding to validation rules. Finally, you will learn to make your forms accessible to screen readers by adding helpful text to your inputs’ ARIA attributes.
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Flask makes it possible for developers to build an API for whatever use case they might have. In this tutorial, Wole Oyekanmi will show you how to set up Google Cloud, Cloud SQL, and App Engine to build a Flask API. (Cloud SQL is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) database engine, and App Engine is a fully managed PaaS for hosting applications.)
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Props and PropTypes are an important mechanism for passing information between React components, and we’re going to look into them in great detail here. This tutorial will introduce you to the details about props, passing and accessing props, and passing information to any component using props. However, it’s always a good practice to validate the data we are getting through props by using PropTypes. So, you will also learn how to integrate PropTypes in React.
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The first place Suzanne Scacca goes to whenever she’s curious about what more could be done to improve our users experiences is the Google Developers site or Think with Google to pull the latest consumer data. There’s a reason why Google dominates market share for things like search engines, web browsers, email clients and cloud storage services. It knows exactly what consumers want and it has designed simple, intuitive, and useful solutions for them. If there’s one company whose product features you should be mirroring, it’s Google.
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You can get by in NodeJS without properly handling errors but due to the asynchronous nature of NodeJS, improper handling or errors can cause you pain soon enough. This article is for JavaScript and NodeJS developers who want to improve error-handling in their applications. Kelvin Omereshone explains the error class pattern and how to use it for a better, more efficient way of handling errors across your applications.
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Showcasing new product features to users or familiarizing them with some UI functionality in a web app can get tedious, especially when you want users to see a lot of things. In the following guide, BLessing Krofegha will show you how to proactively use product tours to onboard users into a new and complex UX, and how to familiarize them with UI functionality without boring them, using a typical React app.
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Redux is a robust state-management library for single-page JavaScript apps. It is described on the official documentation as a predictable state container for Javascript applications and it’s fairly simple to learn the concepts and implement Redux in a simple app. Going from a simple counter app to a real-world app, however, can be quite the jump.
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Ever tried interacting with a GraphQL server in a client-side application and felt like giving up even before getting anywhere? Ever declined an invitation to join a code base that requires working with GraphQL API because you had no idea? Ever felt like the only front-end engineer who hasn’t learned how to consume GraphQL APIs? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this tutorial is for you. We’ll be taking a closer look at a few basics of GraphQL and Apollo Client, as well as how to work with both of them. By the end, we’ll have built a pet shop app that uses Apollo Client. Then, you can go on to build your next project.
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