92 posts tagged with "React"

We expand on our knowledge of React hooks by using the useEffect hook to create a Wikipedia search bar.

Introduction to Hooks for functional components. Using state in functional components to toggle an accordion.

Showing or hiding the Table Of Contents, depending on whether it exists or not.

Querying for a specific Strapi post using GraphQL query variables.

Comparing Strapi to Contentful and the trials and tribulations of setting up Strapi with a cloud based Mongo database.

Connecting Gatsby to Contentful CMS. Creating a data model and querying API endpoints with GraphQL. Pulling data into templates.

How to create a custom 404 page and the basics of React Helmet, which handles site meta-data dynamically.

Adding images to Markdown based posts in Gatsby using gatsby-remark-images

Using the Markdown filepath to dynamically generate a page slug and page for each markdown file, and then linking to those pages on the post index.

Intro to GraphQL. Pulling in dynamic content from GraphQL API. Constructing data variables. Replacing GraphiQL with GraphQL Playground

Sourcing Gatsby blog post content from local Markdown files. Iterating over API data to list posts.

Preventing repetitive API requests by creating a new action called fetchPostsAndUser to store author data before header component loads.

Fetching author data by matching author ID from posts in a React-Redux based blog app.

Covers file structure, action creators, reducers, combining reducers, provider & connect. Sample app with a song list built with Redux data. Updating state with action creators.

How to fetch data from an API inside React using Redux and Redux-Thunk. Using that data to display a list of blog posts.

Explains the Redux cycle in a React app. Redux replaces the standard state cycle in a React app, making it more manageable for large applications. Covers Actions, Action Creators, Dispatch, Reducers, State and Redux Store.

Creating a responsive masonry style image grid in React. Will also work for cards. This method uses componentDidMount so will not work with statis site generators like Gatsby.

Mapped arrays in React require each item to have a unique hey. This post covers why and how to implement them.

Making API requests with Axios, using Async Await for returned data. Looping over returned data. Axios custom client.

Intercepting the default form behaviour. Sending information from child (form) to parent (App) by invoking callback functions.