Fetching data with react

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. It’s located here and requires you to have Node.js installed and access to a MongoDB Instance. Follow the instructions in that repo to get up and running. If you don’t want to use that one, you can set up your own REST service (or CouchDB instance?) and follow along with the concepts. ...

August 29, 2018 · James D Hughes

Learning React with create-react-app

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. ...

August 17, 2018 · James D Hughes