Questions tagged [react]
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Is it an anti-pattern on React to search for children with a specific element type?
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When designing the API of a React component, you may decide to receive props in a more semantical way. Here's a simple example
<Modal headerTitle="foo" />
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<Modal>
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Proper recursive rendering in React
I'm trying to render a recursive list from a json file. Could you please suggest a proper way to render children (and their children etc.)?
Those elements are stored in entry.children
By now I can ...
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How to design front-end to handle multiple back-end versions
In my company, we're using Spring Boot to implement backend API and React to implement frontend including Web interface and Android/iOS apps.
Since our product is an Enterprise software, customers ...
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Building a form based on json object?
I'm currently refactoring an older legacy application and use React to rebuild some of the former functionality. This application has a form which has +10 different input fields. The aim is to kind of ...
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Does the React (and Vue.js) frameworks support extensibility?
Please forgive me if I am mixing up the terminology here, I'm a bit unfamiliar with it. I wanted to find a way to support extensibility in a web application; I wanted a web application that was ...
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How to manage chaotic code explosion in React application
So we decided to redo UI of our web application in React. Six months down the lane and we have a complete mess of components and reducers and thunks and actions and god knows what not.
We have ...
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Use React to parse a file (serverless)
I have a design question and am hoping for some validation. I want to create a 'serverless' web app which will parse a csv file and return an XML file.
I will have a single page react app hosted in ...
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Using Django Sessions when views are accessed by API
I'm making an app which is a Django backend and a React frontend (being developed by someone else). The plan currently is to fully decouple the two and have them communicate over API. However, I would ...
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Confused about AWS dev: How to use React with Python in my lambda functions?
I'm very new to the serverless and backend world. I've been looking at tutorials on youtube and on serverless-stack.com (which is really good btw) and they mostly seem to cover React frontend ...
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Updating nested state with React Hooks and Typescript - performance vs clarity
I have some deeply nested react components. Let's limit them to 3 levels of nesting and call them Parent, Children and Grandchildren. The state for the entire app is stored in a single object in the ...
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How authorize web application and manage sessions
i am building a single page react app that uses redux as state manager and an express node js as backend server but i don't know what is the best way to authorize my users in the application!
if it ...
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Why isn't React recognizing the CSS file I've linked in Index.html?
I've built a meme generator using React as an early project to master the basics. I have 6 files in my "mememaker" folder on my desktop, which I created using "create-react-app". They include: index....
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Render constant props components from an object or by hand?
Lets say I have a component that render some "static" information and another one that is the parent of these components.
function Foo(){
...
return (
<Bar name="I" {......
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What does app class means? [closed]
In framworks for developing app whether it be a joomla or react or angular i see app class. What does it mean. Like if there is some user class, or some input class or that make sense for some purpose ...
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How to configure a React app for different environments
We're configuring the build and release pipeline for our frontend code which is built with React. The final output is just some static HTML/Javascript code. The differences between environments are ...
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Is there a standard convention for onChange handlers for react components?
It seems that some components like to pass an event as the first (or only) argument for a change event, eg (the native input, Material-UI's TextField) and then the programmer accesses the value with ...
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Form validation code shared in the frontend and backend API?
I have a legacy Java monolithic web application. My goal is to use React on the frontend, keep Java on the backend and add an API for the frontend to use.
My question is how can I write the data ...
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ReactJS - lift state to main container or export a helper?
I'm using ReactJS (React Hooks, specifically) to build an application. Part of that application involves account creation, sign-in, and authentication. I only recently finished the sign-in feature, ...
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Render GUI from React component functions
I'm not sure if this is the right way to build React components.
I have a component with several buttons that call different functions in the component. In some of the functions I need to display ...
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Domain classes in DDD structure in React apps?
I'm building an Electron app using React. I'm coming from the C# and WPF world and I'm wondering, where should my domain classes go? I understand the concept of components, but what about a class with ...
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React CRUD patterns
My strategy with react forms has always been (psuedocode):
CreateFoo - simply hooks up redux actions to save new record
- onOk = (draft) => dispatch(addFoo(draft));
- return <FooForm onOk={...
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Ist good practice adding Converter Between api and client
I just want to curious about adding a converter is a good practice or not.
I have multiple API and I always convert API return fields to my client fields.
Like=>
function ConvertFromAPI(apidata){ ...
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Why is it called a functional component?
A quick google search shows that the question I have has not been asked directly, and so I ask it here. For what its worth, I am learning react, and I come from a C++ background, where as far as I ...
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Optimizing web dashboard with editable elements for performance by introducing ElasticSearch
To improve performance, we are optimizing our complex tabular web-based dashboard that loads a lot of data (many columns and rows). Many cells in the table are editable so the data is mutable. Our ...
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Where to store the state of a complex form in React?
Let us consider a complex form of registering a driver and owner.
The driver will have all these fields:
driver = {
firstName: "xyz",
lastName: "abc",
phone: "1234",
email: "m@g.com,
licence: "...
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How to handle server side pagination + processing large sets of data
So lets say I have a SQL query made by a server that fetches up to thousands of records at a time and I need to display those records in a grid(similar to AG Grid) on the client for the user to review....
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“Fetch the data if it doesn't exist” selector?
Let's say I have a react component like this:
const MyComponent = ({data}) => (<div>{JSON.stringify(data)}</div>);
const myReduxSelector = (state, id) => state.someData[id];
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How should a non-React component subscribe and respond to Redux state changes?
I’m new to React/Redux tools and still figuring out some idiomatic design patterns.
Here's a scenario:
A user adding a place marker 📍 (that has some associated metadata) to an interactive map (...
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How can I manage the state of my application using a dedicated object instead of what React offers?
Most of the react application I've seen are organized with components that, in my opinion, do too much.
They may follow this pattern:
class MyComponent extends Component {
constructor() {
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Should / When to create javascript object to serialize data?
I'm working on a React/Redux application. I receive a data object from the api resembling this:
const dataObj = [
{
id: 1,
name: "Filo",
activity: 9,
info: {
statusCode: 4
...
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React: Redux vs Singleton service [closed]
An application I'm currently working on in our front end we currently use React, Redux and some singleton services (wrappers around some 3rd party libraries). We started discussing a new feature which ...
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React and redux app-wide translation best practices
My team and I want to translate an entire React-redux app into another language (english to arabic) and have a switch that does the app-wide translation via a redux action. The content for the first ...
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How can I prevent my API from being accessed by anything but my website?
I've got an API (Java + Play Framework). I've got a website (React) who has to communicate with the API. I don't want my API being called by anything but my website.
How can I do?
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Cross-domain reactjs component
Lets say I have some react components on domain-a.com.
From domain-b.com, an applications calls an API endpoint on domain-a.com. This end point returns the .js of the above mentioned react ...
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How to make a secure web-app account system?
i have some experience (mostly as a student) with react and redux, and on the other hand i also have some experience with express, normally for my apps (all of them are really simple) i make a rest ...
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Why was Google Maps built using canvas? If it was built today, would it have rather used react/angular? Why (not)? [closed]
Google Maps' frontend is almost completely dependent on canvas.
Given that it was initially developed a long time ago, is it still the best approach to take to build such a UI? If not, what is and ...
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How can I handle slow loading of images in react?
I have the following problem. I have a react application that needs to load a grid of individual small, fixed size images, up to a few hundreds (think a 20x20 grid where each cell is a 100x100 image). ...
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Is it antipattern to use React.cloneElement to extend an element?
I'm creating a popover component for a UI in React. That component contains a button that triggers the popover to display. Because the button needs to be configurable--label, classes, properties--I ...
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Why JS MVC frameworks prefer data binding to UI element reference?
When you are using frameworks like Angular, Angular2+, and React, the way you put data in the UI is by binding a property to an attribute of a UI element.
On the other hand, when you're doing ...
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Single Page Apps: handling state dependencies
If I have an React/Redux single page application that has - say - a customers page that lists businesses that are customers, and from there each customer can be accessed with a URL like this:
/...
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How should I store a list of file names for a webapp?
I want to be able to call on a list of files that are being processed by the server. The problem is, I want to call them on a web app (think React) whenever a user does something. i.e. a list of all ...
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Is it appropriate to rely on the fact that state doesn't exist for other users coming to the same address?
I am writing a web app. I want users to be able to go to a URL and start a new "session" of my app. They can Slack their friends/colleagues the URL and then everybody is in a socket-connected scenario ...
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Thinking about a setup to work with react and front end development
On my team I'm working as a frontend developer in a React codebase. We're building an application and do everything in React. Before this I was actually always a backend developer. Now I have the ...
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react-redux (React bindings) vs Virtual Dom and Single responsibility principle
I understand React and Redux (at least think that I do). But the combination using the react-redux Binding package is a bit confusing to me.
https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux
The first thing ...
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React Native - Is using a singleton the best alternative to DI?
I've been reading a lot about the singleton pattern and how it's "bad" because it makes the classes using it hard to test so it should be avoided. I've read some articles explaining how the singleton ...
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Styling shareable React component?
I've been looking for a good way to style a react component just using css stylesheets. I would have used style-loader, because it's as easy as require('./style.css') and allows to save the final ...
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React / GraphQL / Redux design question: Looking for a good practice
A React website I am building is going to have these sections: Hero, Projects, Courses, Skills and a few others. The Skill section will iterate though a list of skills and display a React component ...
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How to know which call is correct when multiple potential calls to API each new one invalidates the old one
I have a react element that will potentially call an API multiple times in a short amount of time. Every new call would invalidate the old one as it is a pricing request to the server. Is there a way ...
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Functional model vs data model and react/redux
I have a module object, that consists of several parameters and an algorithm.
A parameter consists of a min, max, step, label and value.
The module's algorithm is regularly making a calculation ...
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Pros and Cons of Facebook's React vs. Web Components (Polymer)
What are the main benefits of Facebook's React over the upcoming Web Components spec and vice versa (or perhaps a more apples-to-apples comparison would be to Google's Polymer library)?
According to ...
