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Why are React keys limited to strings?
In React, when rendering a mapping from elements of a list/array/iterable to React elements, we're required to attach a locally-unique key to each element. Generally this is so that if an element ...
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continuous deployment of web application built with multiple packages
Our react web application is broken down to multiple components. Some of these components are part of the same git mono repo and some live in a different repo.
Now, to implement a bug fix we have to ...
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Best practise/tidy way for adding google analytics to a React application?
This blog here recommends using react-ga and just adding react events every, eg on event clicks, like:
export default class SomeComponent extends React.Component {
handleClick() {
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Easiest way to add tracking of interactivity (mouse clicks, scrolls, multi-touch gestures) to a React Web App already developed?
Context: we have a responsive web application developed in React.js, which we have successfully used a few times to run user studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Now, we would like to add interactivity ...
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ReactJS - proper way to handle a responsive design approach?
I've always used CSS and media queries when it comes to responsive design. I've been developing in ReactJS for a while, but I feel my approach to responsive design is sloppy. I find myself using a mix ...
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New components that implement an abstract component, vs variants on a single component.
I have created some stateless functional components that represent round social media icons used for links/sharing, the code looks like this:
AbstractRound
import React from 'react';
import { ...
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How to store blog post in database - React & GraphQL
I am building travel blog using React as frontend Javascript framework along with GraphQL. I am doing this project by myself as a pilot test and I am currently in a phase of translating photoshop ...
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OrderedMap or List for Redux structure?
I'm implementing a Redux store for a React app using redux-saga for API calls. I've used Immutable.js before for other Redux-using React apps but the nature of previous projects always evidently ...
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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 reuse the same code for separate desktop/mobile Web Applications?
I see that websites like Instagram and Facebook do not fully make use of RWD but serve separate websites depending on the target viewport. I can see how this might be better than RWD - less CSS, ...
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Do database CRUD operations dictate whether and application should be one-way or two-way binding?
I am confused (easily done). To me model is the data from the database sent back as JSON.
When I think of that in an Angular context, when two-way binding is configured, it makes me think the ...
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Does Flux/Redux concept about application state put bounds on the size of application?
In Redux (React Flux implementation) guide https://redux.js.org/basics/reducers it is said, that
In Redux, all the application state is stored as a single object
My questions are:
How seriously ...
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pixels aside, how to cross the uncanny valley of hybrid apps? (performance)
I see the top drawbacks of hybrid (webview/dom) apps, compared to native,
as the following, in order
time to startup/launch
smooth frame rates (no jank)
responsiveness to input, instantaneous
are ...
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Benefits of using a JS Framework
I am starting a new project and trying to decide if I should use a Javascript framework (like vue.js or react) and create a Ruby on Rails API, or use Ruby on Rails to server-side render pages and ...
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React JS: Mixing data types for one state property
In the spirit of minimising state I always have a desire to mix data types for a given state property. For instance, if I were creating a React page that rendered a list of items that could either be ...
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When does it make sense to make an individual React component?
The most obvious criteria for me is for component re-usability, as well as internal state management but aside from that are there are any other good reasons?
For instance, I could have a component ...
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How should I structure React Redux components when requesting Data From an API?
I have a search box I'm going to use on different pages (I use the term 'page' loosely here).
The search box puts its value (the search string) into the Redux state.
The results are populated from an ...
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Should a parent container handle the state of all child components even if they are forms?
We've been having this conversation today, the thing is that I have a GenericModal component create that looks kind of like this when you invoke it:
<GenericModal child="{ComponentToRender} ...
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What types of operations should go into Node.js as opposed to client side javascript functions
I am building a web app with a lot of different API calls: our own proprietary REST API, third-party library API calls, etc. All of these calls either retrieve data, update data, delete data, or ...
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React: Nested object as state vs individual properties
Are there any use-cases where a nested object as state is either more optimal/easier to work with than individual properties?
For instance if I wanted to express some user controls for interacting ...
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Is it bad practice to combine a projects static site with the app?
We are building a react based web app for a project/potential business and I'm wondering if it's ok to include the static site in the web app code?
I've always had a separate basic html and css code ...
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Does it make sense to create a whole new API interface to just handle the web secret key?
In OAuth2.0 we have to send client id and secret along side the user credential to obtain an access token from an authorization server. We have a ReactJS web application that needs to send its request ...
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REST: How to deal with relative resources?
I'm designing an web app with React as front-end, and I'm trying to properly understand REST API practices. Reading resources online, one can get the idea that the REST API is seen kind of like an ...
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When does DRY become counter-productive? [duplicate]
I'm working on a project using Reactjs on the front-end and while working on it, I have been focusing on 'thinking in React'. In doing so, I'm building re-usable components and trying to not repeat ...
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Single page React on Rails app vs Multi page React on Rails app [closed]
I've been looking around hoping to get some perspective of the pros and cons of using a Single Page React App vs. a Multi Page React App. The end product of the project is a page with 5 tabs, each ...
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In the react docs why is binding of *this* preferred over arrow functions for event handlers?
In the React docs, the constructor functions of class components contain lines where this is explicitly bound for event handlers e.g. in the docs for handling events
class Toggle extends React....
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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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What other approaches are there to break circular dependency in MVC?
I'm attempting to build a web front-end based on the MVC pattern, as opposed to based on the libraries involved (e.g. React.js).
I'm using constructor-based dependency injection and interfaces to de-...
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2-way data binding when you store different format from display
I'm using React but I can imagine this concept applying in any 2-way binding situation, where a value is both displayed and stored and these 2 are being kept in sync.
Take for example an app which ...
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Redux: When Should I Keep Track of State and When Should I Not?
NOTE: I am new with the whole concept of state management. I never got into the older languages that "explicitly used" states.
I dived into React and Redux for the past week, and as I'm getting into ...
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How do you update a client state with a server state in Vue or other reactive frameworks
You have a server that sends the client data. A JSON object.
{"name": "folder1", size: "2406"}
The client updates it's data:
data = newData
And the client is updated. Reactive frontend coding as ...
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Fetch data in parent vs fetching data in child
I know that I want to develop a React App like so:
<PhotoPage>
<FeedFilter/>
<PhotoFeed/>
</PhotoPage>
Without using Redux, I know that I need to fetch a dataset of ...
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What's the system architecture of a non-SPA reactive application?
I'm starting to learn about reactive web applications, and I pretty much get the hang of the whole components, virtual DOM, states and more.
First of all, I usually don't name a technology, but for ...
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Why do many software developers violate the open/closed principle?
Why do many software developers violate the open/closed principle by modifying many things like renaming functions which will break the application after upgrading?
This question jumps to my head ...
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Does making a react flash message globally accessible break any conventions?
I read this article where it describes making a flash message in a react app:
https://medium.com/@veelenga/displaying-rails-flash-messages-with-react-5f82982f241c
They mention adding a reference in ...
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Is undo and redo possible/feasible with two-way data binding (vs uni-directional data flow)?
I'm developing an experimental application for work that requires fully persistent undos and redos. I decided to use react/redux/immutable JS tech stack to solve this problem because I saw it worked ...
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React DOM manipulation vs CSS for responsive breakpoints?
Specifically for ReactJS and responsive frameworks that show/hide elements based on width like Bootstrap.
Because ReactJS has a virtual DOM I am presuming doing the DOM manipulation is faster and in ...
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Does Angular2 or Angular4 offer an app state and middleware promise like React / Redux?
I used Angular 1 and React / Redux, and one thing I like about React / Redux is that there is a definite app state, and a middleware that can convert a promise into real data.
In Angular 1, we often ...
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Is it true that for both React or Angular, they are also both “convention over configuration”?
In the Ruby on Rails communication, it is often said that RoR is "convention over configuration".
Can you say for React / Redux / Flux and AngularJS, Angular2, they are also "convention over ...
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Does AngularJS or Angular 2 provide something similar to the Redux middleware so that AJAX data appear immediately available?
I am learning React / Redux, and one feature I like is, when you fire off an Action, you actually provide a request as the "result" or what is called the payload in Redux, and the Redux middleware won'...
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is a react container component an instance of the adapter pattern?
I'm referring to the two types of react components - presentation component and container component. In a more platform-agnostic description, is the container component just an adapter for a ...
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Animations and React — is it bad practice to mix them?
I have been in arguments with programmers that mixing elements with animations and react is very bad practice, and that all animations should be in a style sheet because that is something ...
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Is using both Selenium and Mocha redundant?
I am learning React+Redux now and came to the testing section. Many people use Mocha or Jest to test React components, so far so good, makes sense.
I previously have experience using Selenium and I ...
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How to passing variables from php to react.js component?
For example, I have a react.js component named Question which need the props title,id,content.
<div id="main-section">
<div id="question"></div>
</div>
ReactDOM.render(
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Is it necessary to use inline JavaScript with React? Would React therefore get blocked by default by Content Security Policies (CSPs)?
According to https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-difference-between-ReactNative-and-NativeScript/answer/Valentin-Stoychev , "ReactNative as using the notation found in React for inlining the UI ...
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Is it common/appropriate to have a Flux application that combines Actions and Dispatchers?
I just picked up a React/Flux app and I'm new to the technology stack. One of the things that's throwing me off is that just about every tutorial I view on this stack very clearly defines Dispatchers ...
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How can I improve the relationship between the designer and developers? [closed]
My team is faced with a big challenge. We are building a greenfield app against a legacy codebase. The legacy code contains .NET controls with a certain look and feel. Our front end is ReactJS. We ...
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camelCase, PascalCase, or underscore if you start from scratch with reactjs?
Title says it all. Can't seem to find what is most common out in the world.
I'm brand new to programming.
If the answer is "it depends", I would love to know what it depends on. Here to learn.
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Dynamic React Application Components - like Django Admin
First, to those who don't know, Django-admin, a decade old applications works as such:
You write a class describing the functionality and the expected behaviour of the application:
class AuthorAdmin(...
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Would a site like stack overflow be better as separate static builds or a single app with run-time switches for each community?
I'm designing a web application. I'd like to use sub-domains to split the site into logic separate sections based on some category - exactly like the stack exchange websites do. I'm currently aware of ...
