Here, I’ll show you how to use jsPDF (html to pdf converter) in your React application which supports all modern CSS including flexbox. Consider the below one as your sample App component. Now, install jspdf library by using the below command. Then, you can import jspdf in the App component. Now, I’m going to replace…
You can make use of window object for redirecting to an external URL from your application. Let us assume that you want to redirect users to a specific URL that has typed by that user. Consider the example given below. Here, we are replacing the current URL with the input received from the user. We…
If the value of your input field is not changing or editable, then you can try the following solution. This may happen when your field doesn’t have an onChange event or the value attribute is not updating. Consider the below one as your sample component. Since the value attribute is not updating, it’s not possible…
The default behavior of a button inside the form is to submit the data. Hence, it keeps refreshing in our React application and our onClick function doesn’t work normally. We can fix this issue by preventing the default behavior of the button and adding our custom logic to be executed on the onClick event. Let’s…
This is one of the common issues caused while configuring react routing. I assume that you added the history object to your router using createBrowserHistory and still getting this issue. Here, I will explain how to fix this issue of history. Consider the below one as your router component. If you configure the router component…
I think this is one of the most asked questions when you are on the learning path to React. Since React is unidirectional, it’s not possible to pass data from child component to parent component directly. It doesn’t mean that your child component can’t communicate with the parent component. You can still achieve this by…
Since we don’t have any lifecycle methods in React functional components, we will make use of the hook useEffect to achieve the same behavior. You can also check my other blog posts where you can do componentDidMount and componentDidUpdate with hooks. Basically, componentWillUnmount is used to do something just before the component is destroyed. Mostly,…
We can make use of the hook useEffect in order to achieve the same behavior of componentDidUpdate in the class components. useEffect hook receives a callback function that will execute when the component is mounted and whenever it updates. You can also check my other blog posts where you can do componentDidMount and componentWillUnmount with hooks. Let’s…
We will be using the useEffect hook in the functional component to achieve the same behavior of componentDidMount in the class components. You can also check my other blog posts where you can do componentDidUpdate and componentWillUnmount with hooks. Let’s go through an example of componentDidMount. First, we will be importing useEffect hook from the react library….
This is one of the common errors caused while doing React routing. This happens when the browser tries to access the history object. You can fix this by adding a history object to routing. The full error is given below. TypeError: Cannot read property ‘location’ of undefined Error Fix You can fix this by using…
We need direct access to the DOM elements to focus on the input fields. Here, I make use of the hook useRef to achieve this. Let us see in action. First of all, I initiated a constant with useRef hook. Then, I added our initiated value as a ref to one of my input field….
Here I am going to explain one of the best and common practices of handling multiple inputs with React Hooks. It’s possible to handle all inputs of a form by using a single state and onChange function. Let’s see in action. First of all, we can initialize a state as an object with all input…