Can you use conditional React Hooks in React components? Technically: No. However, if you know about how React Hooks work internally, you can make conditional hooks work for you. Let's take the following example where we start without any conditional hook: In this example, we are conditionally rendering a list component . When the components…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library with a search feature. In the previous example, you installed React Table Library to create a Table component. Now, we will enable users to search data in the table. React Table Library does not come with a native search feature, however, as you have access to the data from…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library with its usePagination plugin to implement pagination. In the previous example, you installed React Table Library to create a table component. Now, you will enable your users to paginate pages in a table. First, import the usePagination hook: Second, initialize it with the…
React's Function Components come with React Hooks these days. Not only can React Hooks be used for State in React (e.g. useState and useReducer ) but also for consuming React's Context . This tutorial shows you how to use React's useContext Hook . Before, make sure to read my React Context tutorial which offers answers to the following…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library with its useTheme plugin to theme your table with a custom style. In the previous example, you installed React Table Library to create a table component. First, import the useTheme hook: And second, create a theme with it and pass it as plugin prop to the Table component: That…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library with a fixed header . In the previous example, you installed React Table Library to create a table component and gave it a theme. Now, we will enable users to have their header sticky to the top: The data object we passed to the Table component in the previous tutorial only…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library with its useSort plugin to implement user sorting. In the previous example, you installed React Table Library to create a table component. Now, you will enable your users to sort columns in the table by clicking on a column's header. First, import the useSort hook: Second…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library to retrieve server-side data featuring examples of server-side pagination, server-side search and filter, and server-side sort . Let's start by installing React Table Library on the command line: We will use the feature rich Hacker News API for fetching server-side data, but…
In this tutorial, I want to show you how to use React Table Library with its resize feature. In the previous example, you installed React Table Library to create a table component. Now, we will enable users to resize columns in the table by clicking on a vertical bar in the header of the column, and dragging left or right. All you need to do…
Quite recently, in a React freelance project of mine, I came across a React pattern where I had been using the same UI components repetitively across multiple pages tied to specific page information . Let's walk through this thing that I name Context Injection in React. Let's say we have an App component which splits its top-level navigation…
