Category: react props

Digging Into React Context

You may have wondered lately what all the buzz is about Context and what it might mean for you and your React sites. Before Context, when the management of state gets complicated beyond the functionality of setState, you likely had to make use of a third party library. Thanks to recent updates by the awesome React team...

What are Higher-Order Components in React?

If you have been in the React ecosystem for a while, there is a possibility that you have heard about Higher Order Components. Let’s look at a simple implementation while also trying to explain the core idea. From here you should get a good idea of how they work and even put them to use.Why Higher-Order Components?...

Putting Things in Context With React

Context is currently an experimental API for React – but soon to be a first class citizen! There are a lot of reasons it is interesting but perhaps the most is that it allows for parent components to pass data implicitly to their children, no matter how deep the component tree is. In other words, data can be add...

React State From the Ground Up

As you begin to learn React, you will be faced with understanding what state is. State is hugely important in React, and perhaps a big reason you’ve looked into using React in the first place. Let’s take a stab at understanding what state is and how it works.What is State? State, in React, is a plain JavaScript o...

I Learned How to be Productive in React in a Week and You Can, Too

This article is not intended for seasoned React pros, but rather, those of us who make websites for a living and are curious how React can help us reason about updating user interfaces. I’ve been intrigued by React for some time, and now that it has gained some standing in the community as well as good reviews, the t...