Exploring JavaScript Libraries
The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to use query params in React Router, including using nested routes. However, instead of a boring how-to, I created a tutorial that includes: Dynamically loading Material-UI (MUI) icons. Using Material-UI Buttons as React Router Links. Programmatically setting the route using the useHistory React Router Hook. Extracting query params using … Read more
A search bar on a UI table is a feature many users have come to expect. However, the Material-UI Table component does not have an out-of-the-box search feature. The React community has created several Material-UI search bar examples and solutions, two of which I will discuss in this article. There is also no filter by … Read more
Material-UI is a slick and powerful component library for quickly building React apps. Material-UI’s theme palette is the foundation for uniquely theming your MUI components so that your app has a distinct “look and feel”. However, it can be challenging to extend the palette to fit your app’s distinct needs. ***UPDATED FOR MUI v5 In … Read more
Customizing Material-UI Table Cell width is a common requirement. Precisely styling the TableCell component is also often requested by users. In this demo, I will show how to create a table sized with fixed width or a dynamic width that fits to the contents of the table cells. I will also set TableCell hover color, … Read more
Material-UI’s table component is a versatile table capable of many customizations. However, finding the proper syntax for simple styling changes can sometimes be challenging. This guide will show you how to set row height for a table row. By default, MUI Table has a minimum height of about 56px that is difficult to override. Below … Read more
Deconstructing useTransition examples from the documentation and creating an original example useTransition is a powerful tool for animating a list of text, images, or components with react-spring. However, I found the documentation and examples listed on the official site to be challenging for a new react-spring user to understand. Since I wanted a detailed explanation, I created … Read more
The Material-UI Skeleton gives a great visual treat to users of your website or app. It’s strength is that it makes the user feel as though the app is useful and useable before critical loading is completed. Let’s configure a Material-UI Skeleton Loader to display for 1 second OR the loading time of an API … Read more
Material-Table is a react data table based on Material-UI. It is quick to implement and will feel familiar to any developer experienced with React and MUI. It is also relatively easy to customize, such as adding autoFocus to the first input when adding a new row to a table. I recently was using an editable … Read more
My favorite JavaScript map library is TopoJSON with d3 because it is simple to configure and there are fantastic examples to get a project up and running quickly. In this project, I have a TopoJSON map of the United States with latitude/longitude points for each capital city. I have multiple transitions chained together on the … Read more
