Souvik Basu

There was a lot of speculation of the stability Context API in future releases of React. React 16.3 makes Context API official now. Although developers were warned against using it, Context API was internally used by a lot of state management and theming libraries like react-redux, react-router and MobX-react. We will explore all about this API.

Outline:

- What is Context API
- How Context API helped redux and router
- Why were developers warned against using it
- Using Context API for our apps

2018 Mumbai

ReactFoo

All about Context API

React Portal is a new feature of React 16. Although it’s quite a handy way to show Modals and toast message, there are concerns around if it’s really a good practice to use portals and jump your code out of the Component heirarchy. We will explore how using React Portals will actually make you a better programmer.

2018 Pune

Deep Dive into React Portals

I worked as an Angular developer for 3 years from version 1.x to 4. Then I had to shift to React in my new company. This is a story about what I had to learn and (more importantly) unlearn while switching gear from Angular to React.