Mike PottebaumHow To Add Webpack To An Auto-Created React AppCreating a React app using the create-react-app command can seem like magic. If you’ve used React before, you might be vaguely aware of…Nov 9, 20201Nov 9, 20201
Mike PottebauminJavaScript in Plain EnglishBuild Reusable React Components with styled-componentsI first used styled-components when I starting working on my first large application, and I really like how it works. It allows you to…Nov 2, 2020Nov 2, 2020
Mike PottebauminJavaScript in Plain EnglishHow To Alert A User Before Leaving A Page In ReactThis past week I had to figure out how to stop a user before leaving a specific page for broadcasting a concert and, if they choose to…Oct 26, 20204Oct 26, 20204
Mike PottebaumHow To Use (More) React HooksA while ago, I wrote about using the basic React hooks, useState and useEffect. Since then, I’ve been working completely with functional…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
Mike PottebauminJavaScript in Plain EnglishJavaScript Reduce: The Ultimate IteratorI completely underestimated the power of Array.prototype.reduce() when I was first learning JavaScript. I didn’t totally understand how it…Oct 4, 20202Oct 4, 20202
Mike PottebaumGit Rebase vs. MergeBefore I worked on a large application with many other developers, I never put much thought into the git process. I learned the basic…Sep 28, 2020Sep 28, 2020
Mike PottebaumBuilding A Chat Feature With ActionCableI recently created a board game app using ActionCable in my Ruby on Rails API and ActionCable Provider for React in my front end to…Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020
Mike PottebaumHow To Style A File Input In ReactGoing in, I thought the hardest part of building the user interface for uploading a file would be the actual functionality of handling…Sep 13, 20202Sep 13, 20202
Mike PottebauminLevel Up CodingJavaScript Date: Building a React Hook For Date SelectorThis week, I had to construct a date selector form in React that looks like this:Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
