Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jun 9, 2021Member-onlyUnder the Hood: React Virtual DOMWhat is React’s Virtual DOM? The official React documentation says that: The virtual DOM (VDOM) is a programming concept where an ideal, or “virtual”, representation of a UI is kept in memory and synced with the “real” DOM by a library such as ReactDOM. This process is called reconciliation. In reality, the virtual DOM is…Java Script6 min read
Published in CodeX·May 25, 2021Member-onlyYour RegEx Could Be Racist And You Don’t Know About ItSo a colleague of mine shared this tweet with us on Slack. I, too, was once guilty of this. Alright, actually more than once. …Regex3 min read
Published in CodeX·May 12, 2021Member-onlyImprove your React App’s Performance using React.memoNobody likes slow, unresponsive apps. Most of the time, it is caused by unnecessary re-rendering of components with props that don’t even change. And you might not even be aware of it, but React still performs the rendering of a component even when it has the same props. But fret…Java Script5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 4, 2021Member-onlyJavaScript ES2021 (ES12) Is Set to Make Our Lives Even EasierThe 12th edition of ECMAScript is scheduled to be approved on June 2021 by the ECMA General Assembly. And by this time, it’s pretty much set in stone what upcoming features are going to make the standard specification. Listed in this article are the upcoming features to JavaScript that will…Java Script4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Apr 29, 2021Member-onlyBuilding a Chat App on React and AWS Amplify (Part 3)This is the part 3 of a mini-series where we try to build a simple chat app on React and AWS Amplify. If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2 you should definitely check them out. Recap In part 2 of the mini-series, we’ve made our app a little bit…React6 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Aug 3, 2020Member-onlyBuilding a Chat App on React and AWS Amplify (Part 2)This is the part 2 of a mini-series where we try to build a simple chat app on React and AWS Amplify. If you haven’t read part 1, you can check it out here. Recap In the previous article, we got to shake hands with AWS Amplify and how powerful it…React8 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 22, 2020Member-onlyBuilding a Chat App on React and AWS Amplify (Part 1)Advancements in technology could arguably be one of the fastest moving things in the world. Over the past two decades, we’ve seen developments in web technologies happen in a blink of an eye. We’ve seen the rise and fall of Web 2.0, jQuery, and the empire of monolithic web apps…React8 min read
