Attention: The following article was published over 5 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Every application has some need for environmental variables that are specific to that environment. This can be database connections strings or URL to an API that will vary between the different environments. …
React with Socket.IO Messaging App
Attention: The following article was published over 5 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Building a messaging app sounds complicated, but it really isn’t. With the right tools, creating one might be simpler than you think. In this post, I will show you how to accomplish …
Using Jest and Testing Library with React Native Part V: Styles Testing
This series covers testing React Native apps with Jest and Testing Library. In our past tutorial, we went over testing text and a button. In this tutorial, we will go over Testing Styles in your React Native app.
Using Jest and Testing Library with React Native Part IV: Testing a Button
In our last tutorial, we went over how to test for an element/component that is not found. In this tutorial, we will go over adding a button to our React Native codebase. After the button is added, we’ll test it.
Cook Your Own Modal with Styled Components
I created several JavaScript modal dialogs – I always extend a framework modal instead of scratch-coding my own. I thought I knew the things a framework needs to implement in order to present a modal but did I? There was only one way to find out: cook my own JS browser modal, and that is exactly what we’ll do in this post.
In this blog, I’ll cover a short approach to hand-coding your own modal with Styled Components. You can find the entire project on GitHub.










