Have you heard about Bun? No? Well, you’re in for a treat. Bun is a new, blazingly fast JavaScript runtime that utilizes Apple’s JavaScript engine JavaScript Core, instead of the V8 engine which Node.js uses today. It’s also written in Zig. …

Gotta fetch em all — Did you recently upgrade to React 18, only to find out all your useEffects are running crazy? Table of Contents Why? Setup Old way React Query useEffect fetch hack with ref Fetch state machine Last words Example repo: https://github.com/sbvalois/react-18-fetch Why? The recent changes to React useEffect makes the hook run twice on mount. This…

Introduction Have you ever wanted to write a mobile app, either for yourself or for your business? In this blog post, we’ll look into how we may write an app that runs on both iOS and Android, using the React Native framework Expo. I’m sure you’ve heard about Expo. If not…

Hi there, and thanks for checking in. In this blog post, I wanted to discuss how to use the React framework Next.js with Strapi to create a portfolio website. It doesn’t matter if the website you’re creating is a personal website, a portfolio website, or a business website. …

I was browsing JavaScript questions at Stack Overflow the other day and realized a lot of questions are about jQuery. These questions weren't about old legacy systems that needed maintenance, but new programmers who probably picked up tutorials that used jQuery. Before There was a time, many years ago, where there…

There are statements scattered all over the internet, claiming that Redux is very hard to set up, and will leave you with a lot of unmanageable spaghetti code. I beg the differ! Using React and Redux is actually very easy, maintainable, and doesn’t really complicate things. …

Firebase is an extremely good software development platform, which gives you access to both authentication, noSQL databases, storage and much more. It’s a true powerhouse, and I love the ease of using Firebase and the database Firestore. We all know the importance of using the right tool for the job…

Table of Contents Why? Setting up a small Express app Creating the React App Connect React app to Express Closing thoughts Source code https://github.com/Devalo/react-app-in-existing-express-app Why? There are times when a simple Express app serving HTML is a very easy and efficient way to build a website. With all the different NPM…

The binary search will search through a sorted dataset. It’s important that the data is sorted from the lowest to the highest value, or else the binary search wouldn’t work. If your data isn’t sorted, you need to sort it before you can search over it with binary search. The…