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What are React Hooks? They let us "hook into" React class component features like state, reducer, and component lifecycle methods and use them within a functional component. React hooks are built-in Javascript objects or functions that allow developers to utilize…

3D animation is one of many ways that frontend development has evolved over time. They boost user interaction with your website and make it appear as if you're engaging with real-world objects. This article will go through how to utilize…

Introducing the concept of React custom hooks ReactJS has introduced powerful improvements to web development since its introduction in 2013 as part of the family of UI libraries. This improvement is not only thanks to the introduction of custom hooks, but also…

Introduction React's version 16.8+ is packed with several hooks with robust functionalities-including the React useEffect Hook. These hooks, over time, have allowed developers to write even more expressive and readable code by providing a more straightforward API to handle React…

Handling data fetching can be tedious with a lot of loading states to manage in a React component, and most of the time, they’re not implemented properly which might cause the app to crash. To address this issue, the React…

Have you ever wondered how popular project management software implemented draggable components that allow users to drag and drop items? In this article, we’ll explore a library called React-Draggable in depth by creating a list with draggable components. Are you…

Introduction to Fetching Data from API Often times, in fullstack web applications, you are required to either interact with a database; this can be a relational or non-relational database, or interact with an API. In such scenarios, you will need to…

Introduction Front-end web development is fast becoming challenging with the rate at which the JavaScript ecosystem is evolving with the release of new JavaScript libraries and frameworks every year. Next.js and React, however, are two fantastic tools that stand out…

Introduction In React, we build applications by breaking down the UI into several components. Often, we use React props to pass data from one React component to another. React props allows us to pass different type of data between two…

Introduction to React Chrome Extensions Google developed Google Chrome (or just Chrome), a popular internet browser. One of the reasons Chrome browser is the most popular browser for web development is that it has Chrome developer tools out of the…

Introduction As libraries evolve and software grows bigger and more complex, the need for a better styling approach grows. Especially for styled components react. The component-driven approach to building software applications majorly influenced by modern libraries and frameworks begs for…

By default, React does not support Markdown syntax, it requires a Markdown library to convert the Markdown syntax into a React element. In this article, we’ll explore what Markdown and react-markdown are, why to use react-markdown, and how to use…