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Raising Baby Chicks with JavaScript
A few years back I decided to start raising chickens. By that time I had beetles, worms, snakes, and frogs; you name it! But raising these cute yellow nuggets is a different beast altogether.
React Native and the Array.reverse bug
Developers have experienced a JavaScript-bug in Safari iOS 12, where an Array.reverse will cache the Array value state, which will still remain reversed even if you reload the page. I think most developers will understand why that is a problem. And apparently the same error exists on macOS as well, not just iOS.
3 Anti-patterns for Conditional Rendering with React
You already know how to implement conditionally rendering with React: just use JavaScript! This gives you a huge amount of power... to shoot yourself in the foot.
Defer the load of non-critical images and components if they are off-screen. This library makes possible to progressively load images, just like Medium does, and React components only when the user is ready to consume the content. Additionaly, take component based code splitting for free. Two at the price of one.
React-Virtualized: Why, When and How you should use it
The virtual DOM (VDOM) is a programming concept where an ideal, or “virtual”, representation of a UI is kept in memory. Then, it is synced with the “real” DOM by a library such as ReactDOM. This process is called reconciliation.
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