Posts

2017

Rendering an array of data as a clickable list using React.js

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React.js is great for quickly rendering arrays of data in a tabular format, and there’s loads of grid-like packages out there in npm, but sometimes you just need to hand-crank something... (continue reading)

React.js Tutorials

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I’ve created a few pages on here which are now growing into a bit of a tutorial, so thought I’d collate the links into one post (and append links to any new related posts in the future) so... (continue reading)

React.js Continued... State!

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This time I’ll be looking at State. What it is and how to use it… Like last time, we’ll be continuing with the code from the previous post.

Last time we created 2 components, home... (continue reading)

React.js Continued... Components!

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It’s time to continue on from my React.js Revisited post that I made a few days ago. This time we’ll look at creating some components…

So what exactly is a “Component”... (continue reading)

The target='_blank' vulnerability

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For many years, I was a fan of using target="_blank" inside any anchor tags on my website that linked to external sites so it would keep the viewer still on my site in the background so they... (continue reading)

React.js Revisited

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Edit 05/03/2017 - My son has kindly followed this mini tutorial and has pointed out a few areas where I didn’t make much sense. All part of learning! But I’ve updated those areas below.... (continue reading)

Windows 8/10 computer not connecting to your network?

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I have had a fair few people lately telling me that their Windows computers are struggling to connect to the Internet. After doing some digging into the problem, it turns out that it could be related... (continue reading)

npm package.json - Package From a Github Commit

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Sometimes the version of an npm package has some functionality you want, but it has issues which break other stuff. What do you do? Pull the repo and build it yourself and shoehorn it in? Let’s... (continue reading)

JSX/ES6 Syntax Highlighting in Visual Studio 2015

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Visual Studio 2015 (by default) isn’t exactly crash hot for editing JavaScript, especially JSX/ES6 for React etc.

A lot of developers seem to opt for alternative IDEs/editors for writing... (continue reading)

Windows 10 IoT on a Raspberry Pi 2

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I thought it a good idea to spend some time looking at Windows 10 IoT edition on my Raspberry Pi 2. I’ve been looking at this since it was first announced a while back, but never actually got... (continue reading)