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Have you ever considered using a debugger for your React project but decided to keep on using console.log() instead because you thought it would be a pain to set up proper debugging? I did, until one day, I needed to get into the weeds...
Read More Debugging React with VS Code and ChromeThe Query Loop block is a powerful tool that brings the WP Loop, a core WordPress function, to the block editor. Introduced in WordPress version 5.8 and continually updated and improved since then, the Query Loop block is a useful way to...
Read More Having Fun with Query Loop BlockCreate your Server If you are working with React and webpack, you probably or mostly never have to create your own local server. If you ever wonder how it works under the hood, here is a simple way to get a local...
Read More Local Development with Node and ExpressTL;DR? NPM 🥊 Composer 👊 npm install (libraries go in node_modules, executables in node_modules/.bin) composer install (libraries go in vendor, executables in vendor/bin) npm install --production composer install --no-dev npm install --package-lock-only composer update --lock npm install <package> composer require <package> npm...
Read More Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Composer vs npmJamstack Conf is a two-day celebration of the next generation of web apps, where the JAMStack community and ecosystem come together to learn, connect, and create. Conference attendees range from frontend and full-stack engineers to web agencies, all ready to push the...
Read More Post Event Report: Jamstack Conf Virtual 2020WordPress block development can be daunting. It’s already intimidating enough that you need to know ReactJS, you also need to install and configure tools like webpack, Babel, and ESLint. Here at WebDevStudios, we like to build things; and we love to do...
Read More WordPress Block Development Made EasyWhat is Storybook? Storybook is a user interface (UI) development environment and playground for UI components. The tool enables developers to create components independently and showcase components interactively in an isolated development environment. Storybook supports many different frontend view layers. React, Vue,...
Read More StorybookJS and Why You Should Use ItAs a team of WordPress developers, we often stumble upon a task where we need to request a set of data using AJAX and render it to the browser. Most of the the time we do it like this: View the code...
Read More A Better, Cleaner Way to Render HTML with JavaScriptAdvanced Custom Fields (ACF) has been around for quite a while now, and it’s super popular. We’re on version 5.x now, and the earliest dated reference documentation I could find was for ACF 2.0 in 2011. There have been some bumps along...
Read More Creating, Extending, and Upgrading Custom ACF Fields That Use Select2Lately, I’ve been trying to become more familiar with design patterns. One thing I’ve realized along the way is that it’s not easy to recognize where a specific pattern might be useful. It usually comes down to having that light bulb moment...
Read More How to Use the Observable Pattern in JavaScript