There are two ways to write React Components: the older Class Component and the newer recommended( Function Component), but what’s the difference?
In this article we will give a general overview of Class and Function Components.
Read more »At OmbuLabs and UpgradeJS we love using React to create dynamic and scalable user interfaces on the front-end of web, mobile, and desktop applications.
With the release of React v18.0, several new features and enhancements have been added that can improve the development experience and boost the performance of React applications.
In this post, we will provide a guide to upgrading your React application from version 16.x to version 18.x, so that you can take advantage of the latest features and improvements.
Read more »React 18 has been out for about 8 months now and it contains a ton of goodies for both end-users and library authors. However, there is one new change that seems to keep coming up in GitHub issues and forum posts – useEffect now fires twice under Strict Mode in development. In this post, I’ll briefly go over exactly what Strict Mode in React is and then offer some advice on dealing with the change – as well as a few useEffect best practices.
“You can have a little imperative React, as a treat.”
When building modern applications with React, Function Components and Hooks are the de facto way to do it. Hooks make your code more declarative and easier to reason about (usually).
However, with all great hammers, you run the risk of everything looking like a nail. Occasionally, some more object-oriented solutions might be the right tool for the job. For example, what if you had a child component that contained a function that needed to be called from the parent? You might want an instance method, but we don’t use Classes anymore!
Fear not – you don’t have to abandon Hooks to be able to call methods on child components. In this post, I’ll show you how – using forwardRef and useImperativeHandle.