Its big because its a really important concept. And also is a capital letter. And makes a cool graph: You might have seen the above graph in various guises. Let’s discuss what it is all about Why do we need it? In the modern age, we assume our computers can do anything we ask instantly…

This is part 14 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from Wes Bos’ React for Beginners. In the React for Beginners series we have been using create-react-app to get ourselves up and running with React. However there comes a time where every fledgling app must leave the nest…

This is part 13 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from Wes Bos’ React for Beginners among other things. After our slight diversion to Proptypes let’s get stuck into the meatiest of meaty things, Authentication and Authorisation. Let’s explain what I mean by that: Authentication - Checking to…

We have used props a lot so far. They are pretty key to getting things to work well so it would be good to have some checks on what is getting passed. This is what propTypes are for. This is a very quick post about how to use them. My First PropType First…

This is part 11 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from Wes Bos’ React for Beginners. So far we have our application being able to Create and Read, with a sync to a database and localstorage for relevant parts. …

This is part 10 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from [Wes Bos’ React for Beginners](www.reactforbeginners.com). In the last post, we used Firebase to have some grocery store items saving in a remote database. Along a similar thought process, we can leverage localStorage to store the user’s order…

This is part 9 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from Wes Bos’ React for Beginners. We have made a fairly clever CRUD app, where state and props are used to react and update the visuals accordingly. So far our React apps have been volatile, as in if…

This is part 8 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from Wes Bos’ React for Beginners. Last time we: Built a component to display data In the containing component, mapped through the array (Object.Keys if its an object) to make multiple components Gave each component a unique key. …

This is part 7 of my React Learning series. Using knowledge gleaned from Wes Bos’ React for Beginners. Last time we explored: Setting up a State Object Building a form with refs that submits data we wanted to put into State Created a method in the App component that updated…