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Dependency Injection
January 6, 2025•13,550 words
Passing around props suck. They're repetitive, get out of sync, and are easy to forget to pass. What if there was a better way to pass data between different parts of your app?
Error Handling
January 6, 2025•5,650 words
Bug are a constant in development. How can we make error handling lead to a nicer user experience when they occur in React, Angular, and Vue?
Component Reference
January 6, 2025•4,832 words
While you usually want to pass data to child components, sometimes you need to access arbitrary data from the child without needing to explicitly pass the data.
Element Reference
January 6, 2025•6,902 words
React, Angular, and Vue provide powerful APIs that let you avoid DOM manipulations most of the time. But sometimes you need to access the underlying DOM. Here's how.
Passing Children
January 6, 2025•4,389 words
Just like HTML nodes have parents and children, so too do framework components. Let's learn how React, Angular, and Vue allow you to pass children to your components.
Transparent Elements
January 6, 2025•2,216 words
There are specific instances where you may want to have a wrapper element in a framework that renders to nothing in the DOM. This is how.
Derived Values
January 6, 2025•2,516 words
Often in application development, you'll want to base one variable's value off of another. There are a few ways of doing this - some easier than others.
Side Effects
January 6, 2025•15,627 words
Some call them "lifecycle methods", others "effect handlers". However you spin it, they both handle side effects in your apps. How can we leverage them better?