NOTE: as of Relay v3.0.0 the server-side rendering performance de-optimization described below has been removed. If you’re using Relay and server-side rendering React components, you must optimize Relay for server-side rendering, or suffer a substantial performance cost. TL;DR You’ll need to configure babel-preset-fbjs to hoist its require calls — but only on the server. We’ll get into… post continues
In this blog post we’ll describe a method for modeling forms in React. What follows is a general method for shaping form state data. It can be used with any state management tool such as Redux, MobX, another flux implementation, or even just this.setState. We’ll be using this.setState in this post. First, let’s start with… post continues
My name’s Aaron Horton, I’m a front-end engineer at 1stdibs and I’m really excited about emails! If this sounds like a contradiction to you, you’re not wrong; developing email templates is, generally, not the most thrilling task for a front-end engineer. Email clients aren’t up-to-date with the newest rendering engines so CSS support is relegated… post continues
React Router is a very popular library for handling URL routing in react applications. There has been a lot of controversy recently following the announcement of version 4. For some of our apps at 1stdibs.com, we’ve been following a much different approach to URL routing. In a Redux application, the store is the single source… post continues
It’s not news how popular React has become over the past few years. Many developers have praised such benefits as the speed that comes from the virtual DOM, the ease of developing an app as a set of reusable components and one-way data flow. What hasn’t been as clear-cut is which frameworks people have chosen… post continues