Tag Archives: reactjs

Convert react/redux webapp from saga/axios to RTK query and RTK listener

Redux saga is a core component of my react/redux applications. Unfortuately Redux Saga has been deprecated and haven’t seen an upgrade in the last year.

This blog posts covers the replacement of redux saga and axios with RTK query and RTK listener in a react redux webapp.

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Trying out Tailwind CSS on a react webapp

Introduction

On November 11 2021 I put trying out tailwindcss on my personal TODO list.

In January 2024 I got around to trying out tailwindcss on a react.js web application and this blogpost first describes how I used it and then what I think about it.

The application used in the tailwind test

The test bed for trying out Tailwind CSS was my smallest real application, handlereg. This is an application for tracking grocery purchases. What’s tracked for each purchase is the date, the store and the amount.

Before trying out Tailwind CSS, the application was styled with Bootstrap v5 (and just recently upgraded from Bootstrap v4).

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Replacing react-datepicker with HTML input element of type date

I replaced “react-datepicker” in two of my react applications, with the built-in <input type=”date”/> date picker, and the resulting reductions in bundle.js size were so significant I felt the need to blog about it.

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1990-ies picture archives in modern skin

I have written a reactjs web application, that displays images from a 1990-is picture archive in a modern, mobile friendly UI, that also tries to use the available space on large displays (responsive layout from bootstrap v4). The URLs of both the individual pictures and albums, contains opengraph and twitter card meta tags, that makes them appear with nice previews when being shared in social media.

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