When gardening, you go to the shed, and in your bucket of garden tools, you see a medium sized garden trowel, and a similar trowel with a pointed nose. You decide you need to bring them both with you to plant your cactus, but was this really necessary? You could have used just one. Similarly, …
Mind of React: Should I Add an Item to State, or a Variable in render()? Read More »
In React, passing a function to a child component can easily be done by passing the function as a prop to the child. This works even when the function uses state from the parent. If we bind the function with the keyword ‘this’ in it’s parent constructor, then we can freely use the function in …
How to pass a function to a child component in React. Read More »
When our room is a mess and we’re tired of cleaning, sometimes we just wave a wand, and everything sorts itself back where it belongs. But the best way for this magic to work is for all the messy items to group together based on what area they’re going to. This way we get lots …
QuickSort: A fascinating algorithm for your immediate array sorting. Read More »
You and your best friend made an appointment to meet for a walk in the park, and then you rescheduled to a new date. The next day, you checked your calendar, biked to your rendezvous… But where is she? Didn’t you guys agree to meet at this time? You stand there puzzled, while your friend …
When you are buying groceries to make dinner, you can’t start preparing the ingredients – chopping the onions, washing the radishes – until you’ve paid for the groceries and driven home, can you? This wouldn’t make sense. Similarly, in React we can’t make modifications to a component until it has been mounted. This is where …
React Lifecycle: Why componentDidMount() is great for a smooth API call Read More »
