The JavaScript and web development community evolves quickly and new frameworks come and go. There are many people learning React, Angular, Vue or Svelte nowadays. They are not only computer science graduates, like it used to be in the past, but also self-taught programmers coming from bootcamps and other backgrounds. I find it amazing that the…
How to learn React is high on the agenda for plenty of JavaScript developers this year. The recent State of JS survey has shown that many developers choose React for creating modern web applications. Due to its popularity and job demand, many JavaScript developers want to learn React. Here I want to give beginners a comprehensive overview of how…
Express.js is the most popular choice when it comes to building web applications with Node.js. However, when saying web applications with Node.js, it's often not for anything visible in the browser (excluding server-side rendering of a frontend application). Instead, Express.js, a web application framework for Node.js, enables you to build server…
Even though I have written a book about Redux in React, it may be too heavy on the subject for someone who wants only to try out a React Redux tutorial. That's why I extracted this chapter from my book to be read as a tutorial for beginners on my website for free to learn the basics about Redux and Redux in React. And who knows, if you want to dig…
Interested in reading this tutorial as one of many chapters in my advanced React with Firebase book? Checkout the entire The Road to Firebase book that teaches you to create business web applications without the need to create a backend application with a database yourself. This comprehensive tutorial walks you through a real-world application…
In this chapter, you will implement server-side architecture using GraphQL and Apollo Server. The GraphQL query language is implemented as a reference implementation in JavaScript by Facebook, while Apollo Server builds on it to simplify building GraphQL servers in JavaScript. Since GraphQL is a query language, its transport layer and data format…
When it comes to network requests between client and server applications, REST is one of the most popular choices to connect both worlds. In REST, everything evolves around the idea of having resources that are accessible by URLs. You can read a resource with a HTTP GET request, create a resource with a HTTP POST request, and update or delete it…
