React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
As I began working on my latest React project, I realized the importance of incorporating voice input to enhance user experience. This feature allows users to interact with the app using voice commands, which can be particularly useful for accessibility and convenience. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I implemented voice input in
Keeping Your React App Up-to-Date: A Step-by-Step Approach As a developer, one of the challenges I’ve faced is ensuring that users of my React application always interact with the latest version. This becomes particularly important when users keep a tab open to the site for days or even weeks. During this time, if updates are
I remember the first time I worked on an application that needed custom 404 handling. I kept thinking, “There must be an elegant way to catch these errors and redirect the user to a stylish ‘Not Found’ page.” As it turns out, React Query and React Router together make this process feel quite intuitive, and
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are becoming increasingly essential in today’s web development landscape. With their ability to combine the best features of web and mobile apps, they’re a fantastic choice for modern developers. If you’re working with Vite and React, you’re already leveraging tools that emphasize speed and efficiency. Now, let’s make your app a
When working on modern web applications, performance is often a key concern, and images are a frequent culprit in slowing things down. Lazy loading images is one effective strategy to improve your app’s performance by only loading images as they are needed. However, handling situations where an image fails to load is just as important
When I started working on a live QR code scanner in React, I wanted to create something that not only displayed a webcam feed but also scanned and decoded QR codes in real time. With React, TypeScript, and a few powerful libraries, it turned out to be an engaging and surprisingly manageable task. Using react-webcam
Building components in React is always a rewarding experience, especially when the result is sleek, reusable, and visually impressive. Today, I’ll walk you through creating a progress bar in React that is always 100% wide, with a dynamic background that visually represents progress through a transparent effect on the right. We’ll use CSS and TypeScript
When running a production-grade React application served by Nginx, maintenance mode becomes a handy tool for planned downtime. I recently implemented maintenance mode for a Vite-powered React app and learned a lot about how to make it efficient and dynamic. Here, I’ll share the steps to set it up so that your app checks for
Recently, I was working on a React project that required certain elements to toggle fullscreen mode, and I needed to reuse this functionality across different components. I wanted a clean, reusable solution that leveraged TypeScript to ensure type safety. This led me to create a custom hook for managing fullscreen behavior in React. In this
When working with text-heavy web applications, you might come across scenarios where long text needs to be truncated after a certain number of lines. CSS properties like -webkit-line-clamp make this easy by limiting the visible lines of text, but you might need to know when that text has been clamped for purposes like showing a
Building responsive, interactive applications in React often requires creating components that dynamically change based on user interaction. One common feature is allowing a div to take over the entire screen with the click of a button, creating a fullscreen effect. In this post, I’ll walk through how to implement this feature, making sure to keep
Ensuring a consistent and user-friendly interface is a key aspect of web development. One common challenge is creating a sticky footer that remains at the bottom of the page regardless of the content length. In this blog post, I will guide you through creating a sticky footer using Mantine, a modern React component library. We’ll