How to Build A FAQ Section with React and Headless UI

Using popular Javascript frameworks such as React and Vue brings many advantages such as scalability, performance, Easy development, SEO friendly, etc. One of the biggest bonuses of working with these libraries is accessing a collection of ready-made UI elements with composable and reactive view components.

These materials help facilitate the work of developers either by allowing them to apply them directly in a project or modify them, achieving more of a custom feel. Therefore, saving them time and the complexities of building from scratch.

One of the most challenging parts of building complex UIs is usually the state, events, side-effects, data management, and computation. Therefore, removing these concerns from the markups, styles, and implementation details, makes our logic and components more modular and reusable.

Headless UI provides interaction and state exposed by props with accessible and ready-made UI components, giving us the flexibility to customize the styles to meet our needs.

In this article, readers will learn what an FAQ is and why it is beneficial for their websites. Also, we’ll know how to integrate and use Headless UI to explore how to create, animate, add manual configuration, and style our FAQ using TailwindCSS and React.

See more at: https://blog.openreplay.com/build-a-faq-section-with-react-and-headless-ui

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How native is React Native? | React Native vs Native App Development

If you are undertaking a mobile app development for your start-up or enterprise, you are likely wondering whether to use React Native. As a popular development framework, React Native helps you to develop near-native mobile apps. However, you are probably also wondering how close you can get to a native app by using React Native. How native is React Native?

In the article, we discuss the similarities between native mobile development and development using React Native. We also touch upon where they differ and how to bridge the gaps. Read on.

A brief introduction to React Native

Let’s briefly set the context first. We will briefly touch upon what React Native is and how it differs from earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is a popular JavaScript framework that Facebook has created. You can use this open-source framework to code natively rendering Android and iOS mobile apps. You can use it to develop web apps too.

Facebook has developed React Native based on React, its JavaScript library. The first release of React Native came in March 2015. At the time of writing this article, the latest stable release of React Native is 0.62.0, and it was released in March 2020.

Although relatively new, React Native has acquired a high degree of popularity. The “Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019” report identifies it as the 8th most loved framework. Facebook, Walmart, and Bloomberg are some of the top companies that use React Native.

The popularity of React Native comes from its advantages. Some of its advantages are as follows:

Performance: It delivers optimal performance.
Cross-platform development: You can develop both Android and iOS apps with it. The reuse of code expedites development and reduces costs.
UI design: React Native enables you to design simple and responsive UI for your mobile app.
3rd party plugins: This framework supports 3rd party plugins.
Developer community: A vibrant community of developers support React Native.

Why React Native is fundamentally different from earlier hybrid frameworks

Are you wondering whether React Native is just another of those hybrid frameworks like Ionic or Cordova? It’s not! React Native is fundamentally different from these earlier hybrid frameworks.

React Native is very close to native. Consider the following aspects as described on the React Native website:

Access to many native platforms features: The primitives of React Native render to native platform UI. This means that your React Native app will use many native platform APIs as native apps would do.
Near-native user experience: React Native provides several native components, and these are platform agnostic.
The ease of accessing native APIs: React Native uses a declarative UI paradigm. This enables React Native to interact easily with native platform APIs since React Native wraps existing native code.

Due to these factors, React Native offers many more advantages compared to those earlier hybrid frameworks. We now review them.

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React Starter Kit: Build Web Apps with React, Relay and GraphQL.

React Starter Kit — "isomorphic" web app boilerplate

React Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development built on top of Node.js, Express, GraphQL and React, containing modern web development tools such as Webpack, Babel and Browsersync. Helping you to stay productive following the best practices. A solid starting point for both professionals and newcomers to the industry.

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How to Build A FAQ Section with React and Headless UI

Using popular Javascript frameworks such as React and Vue brings many advantages such as scalability, performance, Easy development, SEO friendly, etc. One of the biggest bonuses of working with these libraries is accessing a collection of ready-made UI elements with composable and reactive view components.

These materials help facilitate the work of developers either by allowing them to apply them directly in a project or modify them, achieving more of a custom feel. Therefore, saving them time and the complexities of building from scratch.

One of the most challenging parts of building complex UIs is usually the state, events, side-effects, data management, and computation. Therefore, removing these concerns from the markups, styles, and implementation details, makes our logic and components more modular and reusable.

Headless UI provides interaction and state exposed by props with accessible and ready-made UI components, giving us the flexibility to customize the styles to meet our needs.

In this article, readers will learn what an FAQ is and why it is beneficial for their websites. Also, we’ll know how to integrate and use Headless UI to explore how to create, animate, add manual configuration, and style our FAQ using TailwindCSS and React.

See more at: https://blog.openreplay.com/build-a-faq-section-with-react-and-headless-ui

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How to Build A FAQ Section with React and Headless UI

Using popular Javascript frameworks such as React and Vue brings many advantages such as scalability, performance, Easy development, SEO friendly, etc. One of the biggest bonuses of working with these libraries is accessing a collection of ready-made UI elements with composable and reactive view components.

These materials help facilitate the work of developers either by allowing them to apply them directly in a project or modify them, achieving more of a custom feel. Therefore, saving them time and the complexities of building from scratch.

One of the most challenging parts of building complex UIs is usually the state, events, side-effects, data management, and computation. Therefore, removing these concerns from the markups, styles, and implementation details, makes our logic and components more modular and reusable.

Headless UI provides interaction and state exposed by props with accessible and ready-made UI components, giving us the flexibility to customize the styles to meet our needs.

In this article, readers will learn what an FAQ is and why it is beneficial for their websites. Also, we’ll know how to integrate and use Headless UI to explore how to create, animate, add manual configuration, and style our FAQ using TailwindCSS and React. To follow along, ensure you have:

What is Headless UI?

Headless UI is a library that provides feature-rich, completely unstyled accessible UI components that are ready-made and provide us with the flexibility to add custom markups and styles. It provides the logic, state, processing, and API for UI elements and interactions. Headless UI is designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.

It provides several benefits:

It allows full customization of how our components behave.
It provides accessibility to screen readers and keyboard users.
It is easy to maintain and modify.
It integrates with frameworks such as Vue and React.

What is a FAQ?

A “Frequently Asked Questions”, also known as FAQ, is a section in articles, websites, email lists, and online forums where organized information and text consisting of questions and answers tend to recur. It includes a series of questions commonly asked by customers and covers topics including product or service usage, business hours, prices, and more.

FAQs help improve the user experience. When a user wants a quick answer to a question about your product, service, or business, compiling answers to common questions on every possible topic related to your product or business saves the user the time to browse through a few pages looking for the correct answer. It allows easy navigation through the site and boosts SEO.

Building our FAQ with React and Headless UI

In this section, we look at how to set up our React, install Headless UI and create our FAQ component. Let’s start by creating our React app with create react-app. Run the following commands at your terminal to create the app and add Headless UI:

# npm
npx create-react-app headless-ui-faq
cd headless-ui-faq
npm install @headlessui/react

In our App.js file add the following code:

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react'

function MyDisclosure() {
  return (
    <Disclosure>
      <Disclosure.Button>
        Is team pricing available?
      </Disclosure.Button>
      <Disclosure.Panel>
        Yes! You can purchase a license that you can share with your entire
        team.
      </Disclosure.Panel>
    </Disclosure>
  )
}

You noticed we import Disclosure from the dependencies we installed: @headlessui/react. Disclosure is a simple, accessible foundation built using the Disclosure, Disclosure.Button and Disclosure.Panel components for building custom UIs that display and hide content accessibly.

Disclosure.Button - This component automatically opens and closes the panel when clicked, and all components will receive the appropriate aria-* related attributes such as aria-expanded and aria-controls.
Disclosure.Panel - This component automatically hides content based on the internal open state tracked within the Disclosure component.

By default, Disclosure.Panel hides the content. Clicking on the Disclosure.Button content will display content on the Disclosure.Panel.

Adding Styles

Headless UI is designed to integrate beautifully with TailwindCSS. To install Tailwind CSS, run the following commands:

npm install -D tailwindcss postcss autoprefixer
npx tailwindcss init

The first command installs Tailwind CSS and its peer dependencies into your application and the second command creates a tailwind.config.js file. In your tailwind.config.js file, replace it with this code:

module.exports = {
  content: [
    "./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Finally, in your index.css file, replace it with the following code:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

Showing and Hiding Panels

In our App.js file, replace it with the following code:

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react';
const faqs = [
  {
    id: 1,
    question: 'What is your refund policy?',
    answer: `If you're unhappy with your purchase for any reason, email us within 90 days and we'll refund you in full, no questions asked.`
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    question: 'How long does it take to get my order?',
    answer: `Most customers can expect to receive their food and supplies within 1 to 3 days. Orders that require prescription approval or personalization may take longer to ship.`
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    question: 'Do you offer technical support?',
    answer: `No.`
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    question: 'How much is shipping?',
    answer: `Orders over $49 ship free! All other orders ship for a flat rate of $4.95.`
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    question: 'How do I contact support?',
    answer: `We offer support over email, and the best way to contact us is through the in-app help menu.`
  }
]

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div className="w-full h-screen px-4 pt-16 bg-green-500">
      <div className="mx-auto w-[500px] h-[500px] max-w-md rounded-2xl bg-white p-2 text-lg">
        <h1 className='text-center text-4xl py-4'>FAQ</h1>
      {faqs.map((faq) => (
        <Disclosure>
          <div className={faq.id}>
            <Disclosure.Button className="flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg bg-green-200 px-4 py-2 mb-2 text-left font-medium text-green-600">
              {faq.question}
            </Disclosure.Button>
            <Disclosure.Panel className="text-gray-700 flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg px-4 mb-2 text-left text-sm">
              {faq.answer}
            </Disclosure.Panel>
          </div>
        </Disclosure>
        ))}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

Disclosure.Button on click:

The Disclosure component with its related sub-components exposes a render prop containing the open state of the panel. You can use this to conditionally apply styles to any part of your disclosure; for example, the button can be used to change the icons:

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react'
import { BiMinus } from 'react-icons/bi';
import { BsPlusLg } from 'react-icons/bs'

const faq = [/*...*/]

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div className="w-full h-screen px-4 pt-16 bg-green-500">
      <div className="mx-auto w-[500px] h-[500px] max-w-md rounded-2xl bg-white p-2 text-lg">
        <h1 className='text-center text-4xl py-4'>FAQ</h1>
        {faqs.map((faq) => (
          <Disclosure>
            {({ open}) => (
              <>
                  <div key={faq.id}>
                    <Disclosure.Button className="flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg bg-green-200 px-4 py-3 mb-2 text-left font-medium text-green-600">
                      <span>{faq.question}</span>
                      { open ? <BiMinus /> : <BsPlusLg />}
                    </Disclosure.Button>
                      <Disclosure.Panel className="text-gray-500 flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg px-4 mb-2 text-left text-sm font-medium">
                        {faq.answer}
                      </Disclosure.Panel>
                  </div>
              </>
            )}
          </Disclosure>
        ))}
      </div>
    </div>  )
}

The Disclosure also allows you to handle the state yourself by passing a static prop to the Disclosure.Panel to tell it to always render. Then use the open render prop to control when the panel is shown or hidden.

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react'
import { BiMinus } from 'react-icons/bi';
import { BsPlusLg } from 'react-icons/bs';

const faq = [/*...*/]

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div className="w-full h-screen px-4 pt-16 bg-green-500">
      <div className="mx-auto w-[500px] h-[500px] max-w-md rounded-2xl bg-white p-2 text-lg">
        <h1 className='text-center text-4xl py-4'>FAQ</h1>
        {faqs.map((faq) => (
          <Disclosure>
            {({ open}) => (
              <>
                  <div key={faq.id}>
                    <Disclosure.Button className="flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg bg-green-200 px-4 py-3 mb-2 text-left font-medium text-green-600">
                      <span>{faq.question}</span>
                      { open ? <BiMinus /> : <BsPlusLg />}
                    </Disclosure.Button>
                    {open && (
                      <Disclosure.Panel static className="text-gray-500 flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg px-4 mb-2 text-left text-sm font-medium">
                        {faq.answer}
                      </Disclosure.Panel>
                    )}
                  </div>
              </>
            )}
          </Disclosure>
        ))}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

Manually closing our Panels

Disclosure allows us to manually close our panels in two ways:

as prop - To close a disclosure manually when clicking a child of its panel, Disclosure exposes the as prop to customize the rendered element. This is useful when using disclosures for things that contain links, such as your mobile view navbar, where you want the disclosure to close when navigating to the next page.

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react'

function MyDisclosure() {
  return (
    <Disclosure>
      <Disclosure.Button>Mobile Menu</Disclosure.Button>
      <Disclosure.Panel>
        <Disclosure.Button as={Link} href="https://headlessui.com/react">
          Home
        </Disclosure.Button>
      </Disclosure.Panel>
    </Disclosure>
  )
}

close prop - Disclosure and its sub-components expose a close() render prop that exists on the components, which you can use to imperatively close the panel, such as after running an async action.

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react'

function MyDisclosure() {
  return (
    <Disclosure>
      <Disclosure.Button>Terms</Disclosure.Button>
      <Disclosure.Panel>
        {({ close }) => (
          <button
            onClick={async () => {
              await fetch('/accept-terms', { method: 'POST' })
              close()
            }}
          >
            Read and accept
          </button>
        )}
      </Disclosure.Panel>
    </Disclosure>
  )
}

Adding Transitions

Headless UI allows us to animate the opening and closing of the menu panel by providing the Transition component. The Transition component automatically communicates with the Disclosure component. To animate our FAQ, you must wrap the Disclosure.Panel or Disclosure.Button in a Transition, and the transition will be applied automatically.

import { Disclosure, Transition } from '@headlessui/react'
import { BiMinus } from 'react-icons/bi';
import { BsPlusLg } from 'react-icons/bs';

const faqs = [/*...*/]

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div className="w-full h-screen px-4 pt-16 bg-green-500">
      <div className="mx-auto w-[500px] h-[500px] max-w-md rounded-2xl bg-white p-2 text-lg">
        <h1 className='text-center text-4xl py-4'>FAQ</h1>
        {faqs.map((faq) => (
          <Disclosure>
            {({ open}) => (
              <>
                  <div key={faq.id}>
                    <Disclosure.Button className="flex w-full justify-between border-black border-t-2 px-4 py-3 mb-2 text-left font-medium text-green-600">
                      <span>{faq.question}</span>
                      { open ? <BiMinus /> : <BsPlusLg />}
                    </Disclosure.Button>
                      <Transition
                        show={open}
                        enter="transition duration-1000 ease-out"
                        enterFrom="transform scale-95 opacity-0"
                        enterTo="transform scale-100 opacity-100"
                        leave="transition duration-100 ease-out"
                        leaveFrom="transform scale-100 opacity-100"
                        leaveTo="transform scale-95 opacity-0"
                      >
                        <Disclosure.Panel static className="text-gray-500 flex w-full justify-between rounded-lg px-4 mb-2 text-left text-sm font-medium">
                          {faq.answer}
                        </Disclosure.Panel>
                      </Transition>
                  </div>
              </>
            )}
          </Disclosure>
        ))}
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

Because they’re renderless, Headless UI components integrate well with other React animation libraries such as Framer Motion and React Spring.

Additional Info

By default the Disclosure.Button is rendered as a button and Disclosure.Panel renders as a div. The root component Disclosure does not render an element but renders its children directly by default. To render Disclosure and its sub-components as elements, use the as prop on every component.

import { Disclosure } from '@headlessui/react'
import { Fragment } from 'react';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Disclosure as="div">
      <Disclosure.Button as={Fragment}>
        <button>Solutions</button>
      </Disclosure.Button>
      <Disclosure.Panel as="ul">
        <li>Egg</li>
        <li>Vegetable</li>
        <li>Rice</li>
      </Disclosure.Panel>
    </Disclosure>
  )
}

Conclusion

In this article, we learned about Headless UI, its benefits, and how to use it in creating a FAQ component. With unique props and components, Headless UI gives us out of the box a way to build a beautiful interface.

#react #reactjs #ui #headlessui

Aubrey Price

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Build a simple React Native Pokemon app with React-Navigation

As we start learning new technologies we want to start building something or work on a simple project to get a better understanding of the technology. So, let’s build this simple app.
For this app, we will be using PokeApi to get our pokemon data, and also we will be using Hooks. I am using pokemondb for pokemon sprites. It’s just a personal preference you can use whatever you want.

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