May 4, 2021

May 04 - Top 3 React articles (Beginner's Guide to useReducer + more)

Here are your curated resources for the week.

1. A Beginner's Guide to useReducer Hook by Abhinav Anshul

Don't we already have a useState hook to handle state management in React? Well, yes! useState does the job pretty well. However, the useState hook is limited in cases where a component needs a complex state structure and proper sync with the tree. useReducer when combined with useContext hook could behave very similarly to Redux pattern and sometimes might be a better approach for global state management instead of other unofficial libraries.

2. The definitive guide to profiling React applications by Ovie Okeh

Knowing how to profile a React application to improve real-world performance is a good tool in any front-end developer’s toolkit. The Profiler API allows us to do just that with insights on why and how long our components are rendering for.

3. How to build a table of contents in React by Emma Goto

A table of contents lets your readers see a high-level summary of your page. In this tutorial, we’ll be building a table of contents with React. This component will dynamically render a list of page headings and highlight which heading you are currently viewing.

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