Recently, I used Apollo Client local cache on a project. Like most features of Apollo Client, it’s powerful but complicated. For my project, I wanted to save a blob of data that represents the current state of a page. This blob would allow a user to navigate away from a page and come back later […]

In server-side rendering (SSR), the client and server don’t always communicate perfectly. Recently, we faced a bit of a challenge configuring our app to display adaptive React components smoothly.

Recently, I needed to implement an unusual feature for a React front end: a reusable component that displays server-rendered pages from a legacy version of the same app. If you’ve found yourself in a similar situation, I hope this guide will make life easy for you!

During my introduction to reactive programming, I was shown a giant reactive codebase and told, “Everything is a signal.” Of course, my first question was, “What is a signal?” In my opinion, this question is the sticking point for many reactive tutorials and explanations. Is a pipeline a good analogy for a signal? Maybe an […]

On a current project, we wanted to hoist page state out of a useReducer hook into a query string of the URL. We saw this as a continual need for the project going forward, so we wanted a convenient way to build new pages that stored their state in the URL’s query string. To do […]

Input fields are some of the most fundamental aspects of any application, and front-end validation is expected these days. Unfortunately, doing even simple validation is often more complicated than many clients expect.