How To Not Get Mad
How’s that for a title, eh? Is it true? Have I somehow found the secret to not getting angry? Well, no, not hardly. I have, however, learned some things that I’d like to share. Nothing Makes Us Angry It’s commonplace to hear someone say something like, “he made me so mad today” or “you’re really…
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Gratitude Matters
Since last week was Thanksgiving here in the States, I’ve had the idea of gratitude on my mind quite a bit lately. I’ve always treated gratitude as something “extra”. Like, yea, it’s great and all, but it’s not necessary . Gratitude is an example of “going above and beyond”, right? Well, right or…
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React State Management With useReducer
Like useState and useContext , useReducer is a new twist on a familiar concept. State reducers have been very popular within the React community for years. The popularity of the Redux library is a testament to this fact. Redux actually became so popular that it was almost seen as synonymous…
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Testing In React
Testing is a crucial weapon of any developer's arsenal. Testing ensures your code actually does what you coded it to do. Therefore, understanding how to write good tests is vital. Having said that, this is not an article on what testing is , nor is it intended to teach you how write tests…
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React's useEffect Hook
useEffect is the replacement for all of the lifecycle methods in class components - think componentDidMount , componentDidUnmount , etc. However, it's not just a replacement for lifecycle methods. useEffect can be used for more than that. We have to shift our thinking from useEffect is just…
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React Advanced State Management - Context and Custom Hooks
In my previous post I wrote about the Context API, prop drilling, and composition. We learned that sometimes state management problems can be solved simply by how we structure our components, not using Context. It's important to at least try using composition first. If it doesn't work, then you…
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