ES6 introduced classes to JavaScript, but they’re too simplistic for complex applications. Class fields (also referred to as class properties) aim to deliver simpler constructors with private and static members. The proposal is currently at TC39 stage 3: candidate and could appear in ES2019 (ES10). A quick recap of E...
This article is part of a web development series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Managing data is essential to any application. Orchestrating the flow of data through the user interface (UI) of an application can be challenging. Often, today’s web applications have c...
When you start a new front-end project, the first thing you usually do is create a beautiful design. You carefully plan and draw all of your UI components, as well as each state or effect they may have. However, during development, things usually start to change. New requirements, as well as unforeseen use cases pop u...
This article is by guest author Jack Franklin. SitePoint guest posts aim to bring you engaging content from prominent writers and speakers of the JavaScript community. In this article, we’ll take a look at using Jest — a testing framework maintained by Facebook — to test our ReactJS components. WeR...
This article was peer reviewed by Craig Bilner. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! In this quick tip, we’re going to create a React video component. This will enable you to define a list of videos and allow your visitors to cycle between them. The co...
This article is for developers who are familiar with Angular 1.x and would like to learn more about React. We’ll look at the different approaches they take to building rich web applications, the overlapping functionality and the gaps that React doesn’t attempt to fill. After reading, you’ll have an un...
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