ReactJS

IndexedDB + React for Offline Storage

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Offline data is annoying. I’m used to storing data in localstorage which is okay… sometimes. When you have a small amount of data to store such as user settings or persisting filters between views then this is a decent enough solution. I was working on a project recently that had a wild requirement appear where we needed to store upwards of 10k items offline. Needless to say, this put performance problems in our application.…

Fetching data with react

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

What use is an app that can’t persist data? I’m continuing this from my previous post about my efforts to learn about react. I want to be able to persist my data on a server and display it on a web client. To my understanding, this should be pretty simple so I’m going to put that theory to the test. Firstly! We’re going to use a Node.js scaffold that I covered off in a previous posting as our backend for this app.…

Learning React with create-react-app

Friday, August 17, 2018

I’m an Angular kind of guy. I’ve built several front end applications using Angular 1.x and 2+. I’ve built hybrid mobile apps using the Ionic Framework. In this time, I seem to have just completely ignored the phenomenon that is React js. There are so many frameworks that I’ve not even touched but if any of the job postings I’m seeing are an indication, the appetite for React and React Native developers is increasing rapidly.…