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 […]

Let’s build something every web application needs in their results page: Pagination (aka Paging). This technique is necessary so we don’t bombard our users with all the items in our result page. Instead, we show them in “chunks” or “sets” of results. This is a very simplistic example – all we’re doing is a set […]

One of my latest projects is a map application that has a search form in it. In this form is a field where you can type in a few letters and it will bring up the cities in the US, along with the state abbreviation concatenated with it. In other words – an autocomplete field […]

I was given a task to create a simple API that would fetch jobs from our new system Workday. This API would accept a few parameters, and spit out the relevant jobs from it. My thoughts are always – if I was to build something, might as well learn something new in the process. I’ve […]