How to Improve React Frontend Performance — In modern web application development, performance is the key to a better user experience. Using React will inevitably result in intuitive user interfaces, providing enhanced user experience for many applications without requiring much effort to optimize for performance explicitly. But developers often tend to struggle with performance issues when building…

Different ways to Compose UI Components in Web — Code reusability is one of the most commonly used best practices in modern web applications since they consist of multiple web components. However, many developers struggle to maintain a cleaner code structure with minimum redundancy while prioritizing code reusability. So, in this article, I will discuss how we can use…

Difference Between Server-Sent-Events and WebSockets — Over the years, the HTTP request-response model has been used for client-server communications in web applications. However, with the popularity of real-time web applications, the need has emerged for servers to be able to push data to clients proactively without having clients requesting it first. As a result, push technology-based…

How to disable SSR for Non-SSR Friendly Components in Next.js — Next.js has become one of the most popular frameworks in the React ecosystem. It facilitates developing Server-side rendered (SSR) React apps without starting over with create-react-app. Next.js routing and other built-in configurations are designed primarily for SSR and crawling towards Static Site Generation (SSG). But, there can be instances where…

What are the major differences between React.memo() vs useMemo()? — Performance optimization is an important factor in web development. React uses “memoization” as an optimization technique to speed up the rendering process of the components. It offers React.memo() and useMemo() to implement memoization. This article will compare and contrast React.memo and useMemo() while discussing their use cases.

Tips and Tricks to Style Your Design System — A design system is a collection of design tokens, practices, and reusable components that helps keep things consistent for your design and product teams. Colours, typography, icons, and many more are related to styles that help determine how the brand is presented in the UI. Therefore, when developing your design…

Using React Async to Handle Asynchronous UI States in React Applications — With JavaScript, we typically use async/await for asynchronous operations like data fetching. The same remains even if we use UI libraries like React. But, what if you get a React component and a Hook to fetch data instead? React Async exactly does that by providing a component-driven approach to fetch…

A Quick Overview of React Router v6 — React Router is the most popular lightweight, fully-featured routing library for React. And the React Router version 6, the latest release is finally here! It first launched in an alpha version in early 2021 and is now in a stable release. It has created a lot of buzz in the…

How to use sanitizer API to render HTML strings securely — Web applications often need to work with HTML input. But, rendering them securely on a web page is challenging since they are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. In this article, I will discuss how we can use the new Sanitizer API to address these security concerns with examples while…