I’ve built my first Angular2 app!
I developed my first Angular2 app! That is quite an achievement since initially, I was against Angular2 mainly because it didn’t look like JavaScript (it’s framework, it uses TypeScript, its weird template syntax). I still do not prefer it, but I said to myself that a knowledge of a new technology will make me cooler…
redux-observable is epic, goodbye redux-thunk and axios
Redux-observable is alternative way of performing async operations in JavaScript applications that use redux, apart from redux-thunk. And certainly more awesome. It uses RxJS underneath which I already wrote about briefly. Apart from bringing the power of functional reactive programming into my application I also see it as a way to better structure my application…
Reactive React component using MobX (counter example)
In the following (muted) video for beginners I show how simple it is to make a React component reactive using MobX. Component displays counter’s value and buttons for incrementing and decrementing it and when user clicks the buttons, value is updated on screen accordingly. The main takeaway from this example is this: when observable variables…
Developing web applications with React and its ecosystem
React with its component-based approach is fun! But you can find it hard to build web application with it. That’s because React is not a framework. It’s a library which does one part of building web applications, rendering views, and does it well. You need to bring in other libraries (ecosystem) and piece them together…