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A series of posts on the basic fundamentals of React.
React's useEffect hook is an important tool for managing side effects in your functional components. In this post, we'll look at when your effects run. Effects run on the initial render Every effect runs at least once when your component first render...
State management is a critical part of most front-end applications. In React, you have a few mechanisms to track state, but two common ones are the useState and useRef hooks. If you're not familiar with these hooks, it can be confusing to know when t...
The introduction of hooks made state management much easier in React. With the useState hook, you're given a tuple where the first element is the current state and the second element is a function used to update that state. For primitive types like s...
The useState hook is a basic building block for state management in React. Using the hook is pretty straightforward. The function returns a tuple with the current state and a function to update the state. Here's a basic example: In this example, we...
You've probably heard the term "pure function" before, but if not, it's a function that follows two principles: No Side Effects: a pure function must not alter any objects or variables that exist before it's invoked Deterministic: a pure function m...
A key part of building any non-trivial front-end application involves managing user interactions. React applications are no exception. When a user performs an action, it triggers an event that can be handled. What sets React apart is the way it manag...
