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Build a Drag and Drop layout builder with React and ImmutableJS

There is a huge user demand out there for “drag and drop” type behaviour such as building websites (Wix) or interactive applications (Trello). There is no doubt that this type of interaction creates a really cool user experience. Couple this with some of the latest UI technologies and we can create some really nice software.

What is the end goal of this post?

I want to create a drag and drop layout builder giving users the ability to build layouts from a range of customisable UI components, with the end composition being a website or web app.

Asynchronous Redux Without Middlewares — Using ES2017

It is possible to handle asynchronous redux actions without middlewares and, with ES2017 async/await? We can do it in an even more clear way.

Should I do it?

I am not here to say that you shouldn’t use thunk or saga. If you prefer, you can think of it as an exercise to help us to deepen our knowledge of redux and functional programming. Also, we are going to do it all in a testable way.

React.js in 2019 & Beyond

Should you still learn React.js? What will change in 2019 and 2020? I'm the creator of one of the wold's largest ReactJS courses, here are my thoughts!

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Server Rendering with React and React Router

Server side rendering a React app can provide a few different benefits including performance and SEO. The problem is with those benefits comes a cost of additional complexity to your application. In this post, we’ll start from scratch and slowly build a server side rendered React (with React Router) while breaking down some of the complexity as we go.

Using Wordpress with React js

In this article, we will cover how to use WordPress as a headless CMS by leveraging the WordPress API and React js when building a project.

If you've ever wondered whether or not you can use React with Wordpress, the answer is yes. If you've built wordpress sites before then the solution may not be as obvious as one might expect.

6 Tricks with Resting and Spreading JavaScript Objects

Resting and spreading can be used for more than just resting arguments and spreading arrays.

Here are six lesser known tricks when using rest and spread with JavaScript objects.

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