React: Create a Fullscreen Search Overlay from Scratch
This hands-on, low-word, code-rich article walks you through a complete example of creating a fullscreen search overlay in React. We’ll build everything from the ground up with hooks and pure CSS. No third-party packages are required….
TabBar, TabBarView, and TabPageSelector in Flutter
This practical article is about the TabBar, TabBarView, and TabPageSelector widgets in Flutter. We’ll have a glance at the fundamentals of those things and then examine a concrete example that demonstrates how they work together in…
Flutter: How to Add a Border to a ListTile
In order to add a border to a ListTile widget in Flutter, you can assign its shape property to RoundedRectangleBorder, BeveledRectangleBorder, or StadiumBorder. You have control over the thickness, color, and radius of the border. Let’s…
3 Ways to Create Toasts in React
This practical article walks you through 3 complete examples of showing toast messages in React. In the first one, we will create our own toasts without using any third-party libraries. This will help you to customize…
How to get the Width & Height of the Viewport in React
This concise and straightforward article shows you how to get the width and height of the viewport (window) in React. Without any further ado, let’s unveil things that matter. Overview In React and any other frontend…
React: Programmatically Add/Remove CSS Classes
This succinct, practical article shows you how programmatically add/remove CSS classes to/from an element in React. We can get the job done without installing any third-party libraries. Overview You can add/remove single or multiple classes to/from…
React: Show a Loading Dialog (without any libraries)
This practical shows you how to implement a loading modal dialog in React. We’ll build everything from the ground up and not use any third-party libraries. In addition, we’ll only use modern features like hooks and…
Flutter: Creating a Fullscreen Modal with Search Form
This practical article walks you through a complete example of implementing a fullscreen search modal in Flutter. Without any further ado, let’s get started. The Example Preview The small app we’re going to construct has an…
Flutter: PageView examples
This practical article walks you through a couple of different examples of implementing the PageView widget in Flutter. The first example is simple and straightforward, while the second one is a little bit complex because it…
Flutter: How to Format Numbers as Currency Strings
Overview In order to format numbers as currency strings in Dart and Flutter, we can make use of the NumberFormat class provided by the well-known, official package named intl. There are several constructors for the job….
Flutter & VS Code: Auto Trigger Hot Reload on Save
When developing apps with Flutter and VS Code (Visual Studio Code), most of us perform a hot reload by focusing our mouse pointer in the terminal window and then pressing the well-known shortcut Shift + R….
How to Parse and Render XML Data in Flutter
This succinct article shows you how to parse and display XML data in Flutter. Overview Like JSON, XML can be used to receive data from a web server. However, JSON is a data interchange format and…