Recently I was confronted with SVG in React. I had to use a logo and wanted to use playful SVG background patterns in React. By using SVG, I avoided to use other image formats which would add performance penalties to my application. The article will guide you through using SVG in React. It shows you how to use plain SVG for your application and how…

State management is difficult. A view library, such as React, enables you to manage local component state. But it only scales to a certain point. React is just a view layer library. Eventually you decide to move on to a more sophisticated state management solution such as Redux. Yet there are certain things, that I want to point out in this article…

This article will show you the basic steps to use Redux Saga as side-effect library for asynchronous actions in NextJs. I am no expert in server-side rendering, so maybe you as a reader have more insights that you want to share in the comments. Recently I used Next.js for a server-rendered React.js application. It comes with its open source…

Accepting payments on your own website can be an issue at some point. Often you'll find yourself avoiding it, because you can easily outsource it to platforms such as Gumroad that deal with it. However, at some point you want to avoid these third-party platforms and introduce your own payment system. I dealt with the same issue in a React…

The last two parts of the tutorial series in React introduced two functionalities, a paginated list and an infinite scroll , by using higher order components. However, these functionalities were used exclusively. In one scenario you used a paginated list, where you manually fetched the data, and in the other scenario you used an infinite scroll…

The following React tutorial builds up on Paginated List in React - Build a powerful Component (Part I) . The series of tutorials goes beyond the basic React components that you encounter in other React tutorials. This part of the series will show you how to build an infinite scroll in React. So far, your List component is able to opt-in two…

There are a ton of tutorials about the implementation of applications in React. Most of the time, they use basic components to teach the fundamentals of React, because, to be fair, everything else is hard to cover in one tutorial. Only a handful of long written content will take you on the journey to build more powerful components. I want to take…

It might be a common issue in teaching computer science at universities: While you learn about bubble sorts, lambda calculus and permutations, nobody mentors you about common developer subjects. In the early days at university, I often wondered: What is an API? Not everyone is fully aware of it, but APIs follow us through a multitude of…

Recently I have read Give and Take: A revolutionary approach to Success by Adam Grant. It is an inspiring book and I found myself taking too many notes while reading it. Now I want to summarize my learnings, to internalize them, but also to give others access to it. In his book, Adam Grant dives deep into the spectrum of altruistic to selfish…