Monthly Archives: February 2023
Adding React to an Existing Web Application
There are seemingly endless articles online for building web applications with React. Almost every single one assumes you are building a Single Page Application, from scratch, using React. But to me, one of the most impressive things about React is that you can add React components to any web application without it being a SPA…
The The Tool Set and Build Process – Adding React to an Existing Web Application
This article is part of series on adding React to an existing server side rendered application. To be honest, the hardest part of injecting React components into an existing web application is getting the tool set configured. I’ll cover the tools used as well as the configuration to produce ready-to-consume components. This article was written…
Rendering Single Components – Adding React to an Existing Web Application
This article is part of series on adding React to an existing server side rendered application. Booked will never be a single page application. It just doesn’t make sense. But I still wanted to get the benefits of all the awesome stuff React allows you to do. The fact that React doesn’t require your whole…
Rendering “SPAs” – Adding React to an Existing Web Application
This article is part of series on adding React to an existing server side rendered application. In the last article I covered all the nitty gritty details on how individual, reusable components are built and made available to server-side rendered pages. That all applies to how these mini single page applications are built, as well,…
Communicating Between Components – Adding React to an Existing Web Application
This article is part of series on adding React to an existing server side rendered application. We’ve already seen how easy it is to add React components within an existing server-side rendered page. The biggest challenge is that React is driven by state changes rather than more traditional method calls, so forcing React updates from…