Writing Custom React Hooks with Typescript

Writing custom React hooks with Typescript isn’t all that different from writing them in plain old JavaScript. In this post, we review some basics and “gotchas” of writing your own React hooks with Typescript.

Example: A Simple useFetch Hook

To demonstrate how to write our hooks, we’ll write a hook that does something pretty ubiquitous in web applications: fetching data. Our hook will be called useFetch.

Importantly, we’re just going through the basics here, so this will be a very bare-bones hook. If you want to actually use a useFetch hook in production, I recommend googling around for an existing one that has a lot more bells and whistles.

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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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What are hooks in React JS? - INFO AT ONE

In this article, you will learn what are hooks in React JS? and when to use react hooks? React JS is developed by Facebook in the year 2013. There are many students and the new developers who have confusion between react and hooks in react. Well, it is not different, react is a programming language and hooks is a function which is used in react programming language.
Read More:- https://infoatone.com/what-are-hooks-in-react-js/

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Writing a Custom React Hook with TypeScript

Last part of my 3 part series on writing custom React Hooks!

This one converts the Hook to use TypeScript!

Source code: https://github.com/hswolff/youtube/blob/master/videos/react-demos/src/demo/use-event-listener.tsx

Part 1, Writing the Hook: https://morioh.com/p/dc2156924439
Part 2, Conditional Hooks: https://morioh.com/p/a65010416073

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How to add Cypress for Create React App with TypeScript

In this lesson we look at how to add #cypress with code coverage support for a Create #React App application with #TypeScript.

In the end you will have a developer flow that can save you a bunch of time in testing effort 

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How to Fix Memory Leaks with a Simple React Custom Hook

See error logs in your console with the message “Cannot perform state update on an unmounted component” from your React application? There is a simple cause and easy fix.

The Cause

React components which run asynchronous operations and perform state updates can cause memory leaks if state updates are made after the component is unmounted. Here is a common scenario where this could pop up:

1. User performs an action triggering an event handler to fetch data from an API.
2. The user clicks on a link, navigating them to a different page, before (1) completes.
3. The event handler from (1) completes the fetch, and calls a state setter function, passing it the data that was retrieved from the API.

Since the component was unmounted, a state setter function is being called in a component that is no longer mounted. Essentially, the setter function is updating state no longer exists. Memory Leak.

Here is a contrived example of unsafe code:

const [value, setValue] = useState({});
useEffect(() => {
    const runAsyncOperation = () => {
        setTimeout(() => {
            // MEMORY LEAK HERE, COMPONENT UNMOUNTED
            setValue({ key: 'value' });
        }, 1000);
    }
    runAsyncOperation();
    // USER NAVIGATES AWAY FROM PAGE HERE,
    // IN LESS THAN 1000 MS
}, []); 

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