Frontend undefined

Naming things is hard.

I eventually called this blog "Frontend undefined" because we keep coming up with new ways to build on the web. And because we still run into cannot read property of undefined errors.

Prabashwara Seneviratne

Prabashwara Seneviratne

Author. Lead frontend developer.

Every month I share useful tips for working with React and in-depth reviews of frontend libraries and tools in a monthly post.

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Monthly

Building a sample React app
Why React Context is not great for global state
Right to left (RTL) layouts

Summaries

A summary of libraries that are commonly used with React

Tutorials

How to build a Create React App (CRA) project for production
How to fix a 404 Not Found error when refreshing a React app
How to fix 404 errors when using React Router with Nginx
How to use Docker to setup a React development environment
How to use Docker Compose to host a React web app
How to dockerize a React web app

Answers

How to set up a backend for a React app?
Which frontend framework should you learn as a beginner?
Is it a library or a framework?
Do you need to know Javascript to learn React?
How much Javascript do you need to know to learn React?
How to pick a frontend library or tool?

React Demystified

Is your React useState hook not updating state immediately? Here's how to fix it
Why multiple calls to set state with the React useState hook don't work
console.log printing twice in React? That is React StrictMode in action

Snippets

Sample Dockerfile for hosting a React web app

Essays

Experience
Code is for humans
The way we code changes: 8 years of frontend libraries
It takes time