How to create an Accordion Block using React and WordPress’ Block API

How to create an Accordion Block using React and WordPress’ Block API

I was tasked with creating a custom component for our public website which runs on WordPress. Most commonly known as an “Accordion“, it is a section of a page where you can have a title and an expandable and collapsible directly underneath it. Usually a list of these items are blocked together – forming an […]

Let’s write a simple search component using React and FluentUI

Let’s write a simple search component using React and FluentUI

I’ve been using a lot of FluentUI lately. This is mainly because my work has chosen the Microsoft stack for our intranet portal. FluentUI keeps the look of our apps consistent across the board – so users won’t be able to tell custom code and off the shelf. FluentUI uses React under the hood, so […]

Use sessionStorage for caching data from your backend API

Use sessionStorage for caching data from your backend API

Full stack applications that are decoupled (when the front end is totally detached from the backend) can have a lot of drawbacks. One of those is when communication between the two takes too long. Laggy response times from your backend greatly depreciates the user experience. Nobody likes waiting for stuff to load. And no – […]

Let’s build a Shopping Cart website with SolidJS and Bootstrap – Part 2

Let’s build a Shopping Cart website with SolidJS and Bootstrap – Part 2

In the previous post, we’ve completed setting up the frame for our shopping cart website. We’ve added the routes, finished the product listing page, added filters – and we’ve even started an empty shell for the cart component. Note that if you want to simply download the code – head on to Github. If you’d […]