UseRef hook can be used in two ways. First, it allows to directly access to DOM element, so we can manipulate it. Second, it can keep any mutable value in its .current property, that is not change between renders.

UseEffect hook runs after first render and after every other completed render (but we can change that, so it can runs after first render and only when certain values have changed). We may put in it piece of code, that runs after component render, so we can change state or manipulate DOM tree before it […]

UseContext hook provides a way to pass data through the component tree without having to pass props down manually at every level. It helps maintaining cleaner code. In other words – it provides a way to share values between components without having to explicitly pass a prop through every level of the tree.

UseReducer is an alternative to useState. It works better when you have complex state logic that involves multiple sub-values (e.g. if your state is multidimensional object) or when the next state depends on the previous one. UseReducer hook accepts a reducer of type (state, action) => newState, and returns the current state paired with a dispatch method:

Hooks are a new functionality of React, thanks to which we can “hook into” React features, which makes writing applications easier. First hook that I want to show you is called useState and it is a hook that allows you to use state in a functional component (before hooks you could not use states in […]

New styles, tags, functionalities – this is what tiggers like best 🙂 In this post I will show you how to style text using the text-decoration tag and what new styles for lines (underlines, overlines) are available from 2019

In previous post: styling lists with pseudo-classes I described how to change the color of active, clicked or hovered links. Now I will show you how to change the style of selected links, e.g. only those that lead to PDF files.

Standard appearance of hyperlinks on a website depends on the browser. Each browser can display links and their variants (with different pseudo-classes) in a different way. Usually we want to set our own styles so to display links in the same way in any browser. Links can have different states, and each of this states […]

You can perform git commands for example in: – cmd console (widnows start -> cmd. It should oppened Command Prompt app. To go to the root directory, enter cd \ . Next enter cd + path to directory with your project, e.g. cd Users\ Joanna\Desktop\my-project – git bash console, which you can get from https://git-scm.com/downloads […]

I must admit that I rarely used such units of length as rem and em so far. I usually used pixels (px), because somehow it was easier for me to associate what size a given element will have. The rem and em units, however, have one advantage over pixels – they can be set in […]