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WordPress Block Editor: Block Filters Explained
As WordPress developers, we’ve come to appreciate the power and flexibility of the Block Editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg). While creating custom blocks is often the go-to approach, sometimes we just want to modify existing blocks — tweak how they behave, change their appearance, or even alter how they save data. That’s where block filters come in.…
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Basic React: Conditional Rendering, Lifting State Up, and Testing
As developers diving into the world of React, we quickly realize that while building components is simple, building smart, efficient, and testable applications takes a deeper understanding. In this blog post, we’ll walk through some fundamental React concepts — Conditional Rendering, Lifting State Up, and Testing — that help us write better and more maintainable…
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Understanding Basic React Hooks: A Developer’s Guide
As developers, we’re constantly striving to write cleaner, more efficient code—and React Hooks are an essential part of that journey. Introduced in React 16.8, hooks let us use state and other React features without writing a class. In this post, we’ll dive into some of the most commonly used hooks: useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo, useReducer,…
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Basic React Course: Hooks — useState and useEffect
React has completely changed the way we build user interfaces, and one of its most powerful features is Hooks. In this post, we’re diving into two of the most essential React Hooks: useState and useEffect. If you’re just getting started with React, or if you’ve only worked with class components before, this guide is for…
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Basic React Course: Components, States, and Component Lifecycle
As we continue evolving our front-end projects and building increasingly dynamic user interfaces, React remains one of the most essential tools in our development toolkit. Its component-based architecture gives us the flexibility to design reusable, scalable code, while its modern features push us to think differently about how we structure and manage logic. In this…
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Understanding React Components and the Virtual DOM
As developers, we aim to build fast, scalable, and maintainable web applications. Over time, we’ve tried various frameworks and libraries, but React has truly changed the way we structure our UI logic—thanks to two of its most powerful features: components and the Virtual DOM. In this blog, we’ll break down what React components are, how…
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Introduction to React and JSX
In today’s world of web development, building interactive and dynamic user interfaces (UI) is more important than ever. One of the most popular and powerful tools for achieving this is React. As developers, we are always looking for ways to make our applications faster, more efficient, and scalable. React helps us do exactly that. In…
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Advanced Theme Development in WordPress: Asset Building
As modern web developers, we’re always striving to create WordPress themes that are not only visually stunning but also performant and scalable. One of the key aspects of advanced theme development lies in how we manage and build our front-end assets—JavaScript, CSS, images, fonts, and more. That’s where tools like Webpack and Babel come into…