On my current project, the team (and our client 😱) realised our React website performance rating was below industry-standard, using tools like Google Page Speed Insights. As reported by the tool, the main cause for this are render-blocking scripts like St... (more…)

It’s become mandatory to use TDD in every new piece of code we write if we want to avoid creating legacy code from the beginning. We have many tools available to create unit tests in javascript and react. In this post we will be using jest and enzyme to c... (more…)

React provides no built-in way to do data loading - it's left for you to implement. Doing this is tricky in a React app that uses server side rendering (SSR) because client and server rendering work quite differently: Client render is async so data can be... (more…)

Create React App (CRA) is a very good tool for creating react apps from the CLI without build configuration. Learn how to create a custom...

Today we are launching react-instantsearch, a new library to build search interfaces with Algolia in React and React native. This new way of implementing Algolia brings ideas that go beyond the creation of widgets using React - we think they will fundamen...