Balaganesh DamodaraninWe’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/newsHow to convert React class components to function components using HooksOver the course of the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time working with React hooks, and building function components using hooks…Mar 20, 20194Mar 20, 20194
Balaganesh DamodaranIntroducing Socket WrenchSocket Wrench is to Websockets what Postman/Insomnia is to HTTP connections (kinda).Mar 4, 2019Mar 4, 2019
Balaganesh DamodaraninHackerNoon.comDeconstructing the Magic Behind React HooksReact v16.8.0 has been released, which means that React Hooks are now available in a stable release of React. This is something I’ve been…Feb 22, 2019Feb 22, 2019
Balaganesh DamodaranFlex-Cheat — Easy Cheat Classes for Varied CSS Layouts Using FlexboxesFlex-Cheat is thirty lines of CSS, exposed as six classes, which can be mixed and matched to produce pretty much any HTML element layout…Jan 29, 2019Jan 29, 2019
Balaganesh DamodaraninHackerNoon.comOrganizing Your React + Redux Application’s Codebase for Future Maintainability and ExtensibilityAs the scope, size, and feature set of your React + Redux application grows, so does the pain of maintaining it, especially when you’re…Jan 11, 2019Jan 11, 2019
Balaganesh DamodaraninWe’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/newsBeware of chaining array methods in JavaScriptJavaScript’s Array class exposes quite a few methods (filter, map, reduce), which iterate through an array and call an iterator function…Jan 8, 201917Jan 8, 201917
Balaganesh DamodaranThe AbortController, and Aborting Fetch Requests in JavascriptAbortController recently hit 75% support by browser usage (according to caniuse.com), so let’s take a look at what it is and how we can…Jan 7, 2019Jan 7, 2019
Balaganesh DamodaranWhy I don’t use React-RouterReact-Router is the most popular routing solution out there for React applications — so much so, that a lot of developers think of it as…Dec 24, 201818Dec 24, 201818
Balaganesh DamodaranLearning Redux Without Using ReduxIt’s 2018. If you are writing a front-end application, it’s highly likely you’ll be doing it using React. And while React’s built-in…Nov 17, 2018Nov 17, 2018