Martin Capodici

How to avoid API requests getting called repeatedly in your React component

If you have a React class component OR functional component, and are using fetch, axios, etc. to make a call to the server, you may want to only do that once when the component is created. This is easy to set up for both class components and function components. If you stumbled across this problem

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useEffect hook not working right? Here are a couple of things you can check.

You can’t figure out why the UI is not updating as it should, and you’ve tried console.log and F12 and are still none the wiser. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get past this and build and show off beautiful apps instead. This list of common misunderstandings and how to over come them will

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How to increase your React experience from zero, and work towards a job using React.

Web tech is moving fast, but your job might have you using old technology stacks, or just building sites using a CMS. Or perhaps you are a team lead who doesn’t have the time to keep up. How do you get experienced in React if you can’t do it at work, and make yourself marketable

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If you are stuck with a React or JS problem here are 3 great communities to help, and how to ask for it

Whether you are doing coding for the first time, or for eons, there is one thing that is the same: There is always more to learn, and more to get stuck on. As you get better, you aim higher, and get stuck again! It can be very frustrating to waste a lot of time on

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