React

An apparent React bug
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The details HTML element doesn’t seem to work well when used as a controlled component in React, as pointed out in this open GitHub issue. At first, I thought it was a React bug, but at the end of my investigation while writing this, I concluded it’s simply a mistake – not having a single source of truth for state.
5 min.
September 10, 2022
How not to write forms with React
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Forms are easy to get wrong with React because we can achieve their goal, which is to make a network request when on submission, with any arbitrary HTML and JavaScript.
7 min.
August 28, 2022
Automating SVG to JSX conversion with svgr
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Transforming SVG files into JSX is boring and prone to error. We can handle it better with svgr. Its defaults are good enough, but you’ll likely need to customize it for your needs, which is made possible by writing a template.
3 min.
September 08, 2021
My experience testing React applications
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Thoughts about writing integration tests for React apps, from react-testing-library to Cypress.
4 min.
April 28, 2021