Chiamaka Umeh A frontend developer with a passion for designing highly-responsive user interfaces for JavaScript-based web and mobile apps using React and React Native.

Stories by Chiamaka Umeh

Why React Doesn’t Update State Immediately

Why React doesn’t update state immediately

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React state updates are asynchronous; when an update is requested, there is no guarantee that the updates will be made immediately.

Chiamaka Umeh
Nov 12, 2024 ⋅ 7 min read
Best Practices For React Iframes

Best practices for React iframes

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Explore use cases for React iframes, embedding external content in a web application, and isolating certain parts of an app.

Chiamaka Umeh
Dec 28, 2023 ⋅ 9 min read
Building SvelteKit Forms With Superforms

Building SvelteKit forms with Superforms

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Explore how Superforms simplifies form validation in SvelteKit applications and delivers powerful client-side interactions.

Chiamaka Umeh
Oct 12, 2023 ⋅ 8 min read
Using Hocus To Run Faster Development Environments

Using Hocus to run faster development environments

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Hocus provides a self-hosted alternative to other platforms like Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces.

Chiamaka Umeh
Aug 7, 2023 ⋅ 6 min read
How To Rotate Text CSS

Guide to rotating text in CSS

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Rotating text in CSS is useful when formatting languages comprised of vertical characters, or when adding text to graphics like maps and charts.

Chiamaka Umeh
Jun 29, 2023 ⋅ 3 min read
Underrated React Hooks youre missing out on

Underrated React Hooks you’re missing out on

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Explore the use cases, syntax, and a few code examples of three underrated React Hooks, useImperativeHandle, useLayoutEffect, and useDebugValue.

Chiamaka Umeh
Sep 16, 2022 ⋅ 6 min read
React Native NFC Tags

How to use NFC tags in React Native

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With NFC tags, you can easily transfer small amounts of information, like app URLs, encrypted bank accounts, and more.

Chiamaka Umeh
Aug 22, 2022 ⋅ 5 min read
Redux Persist React Native

How to use Redux Persist in React Native

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Even when we leave our app and come back later, Redux Persist fetches the data from AsyncStorage and initializes the Redux store with it.

Chiamaka Umeh
Jun 27, 2022 ⋅ 5 min read
Improve Node Dependencies

3 ways to secure open source Node.js dependencies

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Review Socket, Node-Secure CLI, and N|Solid, three open source tools for running reports on the security of the transitive and direct dependencies in your project.

Chiamaka Umeh
May 4, 2022 ⋅ 4 min read
React Query Pagination

Pagination and infinite scroll with React Query v3

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React Query makes it easy to fetch, cache, sync, and update server state in React applications. Learn how to implement pagination and infinite scroll using React Query.

Chiamaka Umeh
Apr 11, 2022 ⋅ 6 min read
Firebase Cloud Storage

Upload files to Firebase Cloud Storage in Firebase v9 with React

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Cloud storage service is designed for developers to easily store and serve user-generated content, which is stored in Google Cloud Storage buckets.

Chiamaka Umeh
Apr 5, 2022 ⋅ 4 min read
React Rematch Level Up State Management

Level up your state management with Rematch

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Explore how Rematch works, elaborate on its features, then build a simple to-do application to demonstrate how to use Rematch.

Chiamaka Umeh
Feb 28, 2022 ⋅ 5 min read