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Brief introductions Hi, my name is Brett Thurston. I'm a developer and maker who enjoys working in the front-end spectrum of development and design. I've made an app and wanted to recap some highlights and lessons learned from my journey so far. I'd ...
An introduction to some much needed medicine
There may be times when you don't want to trigger renders when capturing data from the user. useState, by now, is a well known and handy hook since it was implemented in React 16.8. When setting our state variable with useState, it causes a render of...
Learn how to make your own component to handle conditional rendering in React.
In this article you'll find a method to use whenever you have a long string that may funk up your UI components. I was working on a list item component for a project and found a problem we run into a lot. What I have is a list of cards that bring in...
Hey, if you're reading this, you're invited to help others break free from creative blocks. How? Just push a branch up to this repo. Easy. :D https://github.com/BrettThurs10/GoBuildThisStuff This list is great inspiration for developers needing to up...
Let's explore the majestic map array method and all it's glory. Keywords used in this article: array: a list-like object that one can traverse or modify (mutate) integer: a real number, not a string (text) index: the numerical position of an item i...
If you've spent any time learning Javascript you've probably seen three ways to declare a variable. This guide will show you an in depth look at the behaviors of 'var', 'let' and 'const'. Afterwards, you'll be setting variables appropriately and conf...
Idea: Design a responsive login form. Save to localStorage if the user successfully logged in. Bonus points if you build it with authentication. Focus: form authentication, responsive design, styling, state management Login forms are everywhere and ...