It’s been a while since I worked with WordPress, especially building themes. This time around, I wanted to bring in a bit more modern development experience into the process. I wanted to build a Single Page Application (SPA), with WordPress’ Rest API – but as a WordPress theme. The problem is, this can be a […]

Form validation is a task that you can’t get away with when building forms. In React, I feel that forms is not its strongest selling point. Although validation is pretty straightforward. Keep in mind that this is a simple technique – where it does the validation on “Submit”, while the error messages are shown in-line […]

In React, data flows unidirectionally. This means that the State becomes the source of truth – especially working with controlled components and forms. Having said that, you will see your form HTML riddled with something like: And in your class, something like: This is to enforce this unidirectional pattern, making the state mutable and can […]