There has been a paradigm shift in how React works with regard to state, classes, and functions. React now has a feature called hooks, and it looks like a game changer. From reading the react documentation, and watching React Conf, it looks like us web developers should become familiar with Hooks in React since they […]

In this tutorial we are going to add a NavBar component to the application we have been building in React. During this process we’ll need to do some refactoring in order to shift local state out of child components, and into the App parent component. By following this convention, we’ll need to raise events in […]

In this react tutorial we’ll review a few things and then look at how to delete an item from an array. The number of items in the array determines how many item components are displayed on the page. We want to be able to click a button on a specific item, and have React automatically […]

When we talk about composition, we are talking about using smaller pieces to assemble a larger cohesive unit. In React, elements are used to create components. In other words, common HTML pieces like divs, spans, forms, and so on are arranged together to create a component. In talking about composing components in React, we are […]

React elements have properties that are based on the standard DOM events. React elements are able to fire all the same events as the usual DOM elements. They are named using camelCase so don’t forget to use this convention on React Elements. So if you want to use onclick, it will actually be onClick. This […]

Now we’re going to learn about how to do conditional rendering in React. In other words, if one condition exists, then we render a specific piece of information. If a different condition exists, then we would render a different piece of information to the browser. Well, React is not a templating language so we do […]

Creating a list in the browser is a super common technique for displaying a list of data. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about how to create a list of items using React. It’s a little different from how you might approach this when using some of the other popular UI frameworks like Vue or Angular. […]