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Dec 22, 2020

React Navigation AppState-aware Focus Effect

It’s been a while since my last post. This is solely for the purpose of advertising a bit for my newly-created hook that is being used by me and the team a lot when I develop with React Native and React Navigation. In mobile app development, more often than not…

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Sep 28, 2017

Styling shared components

If you’re making shared components for vendors as third-party components, you might want to make sure of two things: You don’t want to pollute the original global styles. You don’t want to get polluted by the original global styles. The most intuitive way would be inline every single style into…

CSS

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Sep 14, 2017

It’s time to drop PropTypes and just use Flow for React

We were kind of encouraged to use PropTypes from the beginning since we started learning React, and it actually does a great type-checking job so far. However, based on several reasons I’ve decided to retire PropTypes from our projects: Flow now has better support for React and React Native Flow 0.53+ made a bunch of improvements to better work with…

React

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May 6, 2017

Writing tests for React-Redux Containers

Nowadays developers tend to believe writing tests is inevitable. In React, to test a component is relatively straightforward, but there hasn’t been a definite guide for us to test a container(connected component). Here I’m going to give some my own ideas inspired by several pioneers on this specific topic. There…

React

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Sep 21, 2015

Theming System in React.js Way

Recently I got a request to let anyone outside the team can easily have their customised stylesheet applied to the platform we are working on. The most common way is to just insert another CSS file just below our original CSS to do the overwrite. However, since we are using…

Java Script

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