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. In React, you can use .env files to define key-value pairs. Then Node will inject these at runtime to be used globally through the process.env.{variable}. In this blog, …
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 this task using Socket.IO. Before we dive in, let’s get some expectations out of the way. There will not be anything fancy in this app like different channels, …
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.
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.
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.
