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How to create an application that will meet the requirements of today’s times? Fast and straightforward operation from every corner of the world is the priority of today’s applications. However, for its structure to be appropriate and modern, it is worth delving into its inner side and starting with what you cannot see at first […]

Since its release in 2011, React JS framework has taken the web development world by storm. For example, in the Stack Overflow survey for 2021, React was picked as the most often used framework by developers and the one most developers want to learn. Why? Because with React JS, building user-friendly interfaces for websites and […]

Intro Frontend development is a bustling place, with a lot of new technologies coming in and out. During the last decade, we have seen a definite shift in the way web pages are developed. We no longer have to touch DOM API directly or play around with awkward Angular dependency injection. Currently, we heavily use […]

You must have been asleep (for a few years at least) because Angular 7.x is already here and you’re still stuck on AngularJS. Or maybe it’s just that your codebase is so damn large you can’t face wasting years of your life rewriting it all at once? Fear not! It’s not that bad. You can (and should!) upgrade to Angular 7 step by step, or you can do it while leaving your old code in place, working with the latest Angular shipping new features.

We live in an era of cryptocurrencies, and there’s no escaping it. It’s already happening, and if there’s one thing that represents well what’s going to happen next, it’s blockchain. That’s why during the Cryptonomic NYC Hackathon we decided to try and visualize tezos transactions on the frontend side.

During the ReactConf 2018 the Hooks were presented and to be honest it has shaken up the React community. If you haven’t seen “React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks” video yet, then I encourage you to do so. Introducing stateless functional components in React 0.14 allowed us to create a smaller […]

JWT Authentication in a React-Redux app Are you currently working on JWT authentication in React and Redux App? Don’t you know how to handle it? In this article we will cover a sign in process step by step. These days, authentication is very important and commonly used aspect in modern web. It is for identifying […]

The example of Facebook dealing with chat problem shows how important it is to properly manage the state of web applications (and I mean UI state). Facebook tried to synchronize a counter between unread messages and currently open chatboxes which caused lots of problems for the users.

The good old days when a webpage had just few JavaScript and CSS files are gone, now our web apps grow bigger and more complex every year. And how to manage and develop all that code? First was Grunt but quickly replaced with Gulp and Browserify, which are great. But configuring them properly takes too much time. Fortunately for us […]