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Functions created with `mapPropsStream` canned be composed together to build up powerful streams. Bring in the `compose` helper from Recompose then simply list your functions in the order you want the props to push through.

Compose Streams of React Props with Recompose’s compose and RxJS

Loading data using RxJS is simple using `Observable.ajax`. This lesson shows you how to take the ajax response and pass it along the stream to use as props in a React Component.

Stream a React Component from an Ajax Request with RxJS

Mapping the props to multiple children involves the use of React’s `Children.map` so that you can map over each child Component provided to the Parent Component stream. Inside the mapping function, you use the `cloneElement` and pass the props manually as you would with a single child component.

Stream Props to Multiple Children with React's Children.map  and RxJS

Combining input streams then using `scan` to track the results is a common scenario when coding with streams. This lesson walks you through setting up two buttons and merging their input events together to build a streaming Counter component.

Merge RxJS Button Event Streams to Build a React Counter Component

Rather than using Components to push streams into other Components, `mapPropsStream` allows you to create functions that can wrap components to create shareable behaviors across components.

Create Stream Behaviors to Push Props in React Components with mapPropsStream

If you hard-code a stream of props to target a specific prop, it becomes impossible to reuse that stream with any other components. Configuring your props stream with lenses will allow you to reuse your stream with any React component.

Make Reusable React Props Streams with Lenses

You can decouple the parent stream Component from the mapped React Component by using `props.children` instead. This process involves mapping the stream to React’s `cloneElement` with the `children` then passing the `props` in manually.

Stream Props to React Children with RxJS

Events are the beginning of most every stream. Recompose provides a `createEventHandler` function to help your create handler and stream pairs. Once the handler/stream pairs are created, it’s simply a matter of passing the handlers down the stream as props and combining the streams any way you want.

Handle React Events as Streams with RxJS and Recompose

When you declare your Component and Props in JSX, you can pass those props along to your [RxJS](/q/rxjs) stream. This is typically done using `switchMap` or `combineLatest` where you can grab from the props from your `props$` stream and push them into another stream.

Pass a React Prop to a Stream in RxJS

Kent taught us about the concept of "render props" in his lesson from the Advanced React Component Patterns course here: [https://egghead.io/lessons/react-use-render-props-with-react](https://egghead.io/lessons/react-use-render-props-with-react)

This lesson takes the concept of render props and migrates it over to streaming props by keeping the same example and simple refactoring the `Toggle` component which handles the render prop.

Refactor React Render Props to Streaming Props with RxJS and Recompose

***Note: Active maintenance for Recompose has been discontinued since the announcement for React hooks. Your existing code using Recompose will still work. Recompose is not compatible with RxJS version 6 and beyond. You can read more about the decision [here.](https://github.com/acdlite/recompose/issues/756#issuecomment-438674573)*** 


Loading data and handling events almost always introduces layers of complexity into React apps. Recompose and RxJS solve your async problems by using Streams to output components. This course walks you through combining the powers of React and RxJS to stream data into JSX with streaming patterns and pure React components.

Build React Components from Streams with RxJS and Recompose

Learn how to use the ‘branch’ and ‘renderComponent’ higher-order components to show errors or messaging when your component is in a non-optimal state. Avoid putting extraneous logic to show errors or messaging into your core component by organizing your non-optimal states into custom higher-order components.

Show Error Messages based on Non-Optimal States with Recompose

Learn how to use the ‘branch’ and ‘renderNothing’ higher-order
components to render nothing when a certain prop condition is
met. Sometimes you only want to render a component when valid
props exist or are in a certain condition; ‘renderNothing’ is
an easy way to completely remove the component when you don’t
need to show it.

Render Components Based on Predicates in Recompose

Learn how and when to use the ‘pure’, ‘onlyUpdateForKeys’,
‘onlyUpdateForPropTypes’, and ‘shouldUpdate’ higher order components.
Each one provides a certain granularity of control over prevent
unnecessary renders. Learn how they build upon each other to provide
different options.

Optimize Component Rendering using Recompose

Learn about optimizations (like component squashing) that Recompose uses behind the scenes. More reading on [Performance](https://github.com/acdlite/recompose/blob/master/docs/performance.md).

Learn How Recompose Optimizes Higher Order Components

Learn how to user the ‘componentFromProp’ helper and ‘defaultProps’ higher order component to swap the underlying html tag of your component. Sometimes we want a component to behave the same overall but to use a different element in the HTML output. An example is swapping an <a> for a <button> or even a react router <Link> depending on circumstance.

Set the HTML Tag of a Component via a Prop using Recompose

Learn how to use the 'withPropsOnChange' higher order component to help ensure that expensive prop computations are only executed when necessary. Simply specify which props are “expensive” and provide a factory function for those props.

Optimize Expensive Computations in Recompose

Learn how to use the 'compose' function to mix together HOCs, even ones from other libraries like 'connect' from redux.

Compose Multiple Higher Order Components Together using Recompose

Learn how to use the 'withState' and 'withHandlers' higher order components to easily add local state to—and create a reusable local state pattern for—your functional stateless components. No need for classes!


Add Local State to a Functional Stateless Component using Recompose

Learn how to use the 'mapProps' higher-order component to modify an existing component’s API (its props). 'mapProps' takes incoming props and changes them however you’d like; for example, filtering the props by a field.

Transform Props by using the Recompose mapProps Higher Order Component

Learn how to use the ‘withProps’ higher order component to pre-fill a prop, unable to be overridden.

Lock Props by using the Recompose withProps Higher Order Component

Gemini 2.0 has a context window of a million tokens, and this means that you can upload hundreds of files and allow it to inspect and analyze massive refactors across entire code bases. 

This lesson demonstrates concatenating an entire code base into a single file and then uploading it to AI Studio. Once within AI Studio, we ask it to find the types of tasks that it can evaluate for us. Then we select one of the tasks and ask it to generate instructions for that task. Once those instructions are complete, we then turn them over to Windsurf's Cascade agent, and we allow Windsurf's Cascade to do all of the work for us as we sit back, relax, and let the AI do our jobs.

Use Gemini 2.0 to Create Agent Instructions to Refactor an Entire Codebase

Learn how to display custom components in a [Tanstack Table cell](https://tanstack.com/table/latest/docs/guide/cells), including how to render capitalized text, apply conditional styling with class helper functions, and format dates using the `Intl` API for readable display. 

`flexRender` allows you to utilize the `cell` callback method in your column definitions. Tanstack table will call this function to render the custom component you defined.

Render Custom JSX in a Tanstack Table cell

Use tanstack table flexRender method to render custom components in a table component. Capitalize letters, apply conditional styling, and render dates with Intl

I'm extremely excited for the potential of AI watching your screen while you work. I decided to take Google's AI Studio for a spin, which just introduced a feature called "Stream Realtime", which allows AI Studio to observe your screen and listen to your microphone while you work.

This video is my initial attempt to try and coach AI Studio through the process of building a site from a reference site, essentially trying to build egghead.io from a Next.js starter template. And we'll explore the various attempts we make and what works and what doesn't.

Let AI Watch Your Screen: Build Next.js Pages with AIStudio's Stream Realtime


[Shadcn](https://ui.shadcn.com/docs) is a popular component library that allows you to install components into your codebase.

Learn how to install the [Table component](https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/components/table) and use that presentational component with [Tanstack table](https://tanstack.com/table/latest).


Display Tabular Data in React with Tanstack Table

Build a dynamic table component in React using shadcn component library and tanstack react table.

TypeScript's satisfies operator finally clicked for me when I realized it's almost always used for specific implementations of configuration objects. So this lesson walks you through the naive approaches I've taken before and how to solve them using the satisfies operator. After this, satisfies will be another tool in your belt in TypeScript. To clean up all the TypeScript code you have around configuration.

TypeScript's "satisfies" for Configuration

Windsurf and Cursor are both able to take an image and then use an agent to build out what it sees in that image. This lesson is going to compare Windsurf and Cursor by uploading the same image to both and giving them the same prompt. Comparing not only the results, but also the steps that they take to get there. We'll also try uploading additional images throughout the process to see what they do as far as revising along the way and improving the site as they go along. 

Windsurf Cascade vs. Cursor Composer Agent: Build a Site from an Image

In this lesson, you'll discover how to style View Transitions using CSS pseudo-selectors to create custom animation effects. We'll transform the default cross-fade into a smooth slide transition by targeting the ::view-transition-old and ::view-transition-new pseudo-elements. You'll learn how these powerful selectors give you precise control over your transition animations, allowing you to create more engaging and personalized user experiences with just a few lines of CSS.

Customize View Transitions with CSS Using view-transition-old and view-transition-new

In this lesson, you'll learn how to implement smooth state transitions in your web applications using the browser's built-in View Transitions API. We'll create a simple example that demonstrates how to animate between different text states with just a few lines of code - no external libraries required. This powerful native API makes it easy to add professional-looking transitions to your user interface, enhancing the user experience with minimal effort.

Create Smooth UI Transitions with the Native View Transitions API

I've been using Cursor for a very long time and their "Agent" feature in Composer is fairly new, so I'm still getting used to it. But since Windsurf recently got onto the stage with their Cascade agent, they've slowly been gaining the mind share on the UX for coding agents. I decided to put them to the test by putting Windsurf and Cursor on the exact same screen side by side trying to accomplish the same task and to see which workflow I would prefer. I've been a diehard Cursor user for over a year now, so it's going to take a lot for me to switch to a different IDE. But I just have to say, even from this simple demo, Windsurf is looking pretty nice.

This lesson is just going to walk through creating a CLI using both tools to print out inspirational quotes and to explore how they approach the step-by-step of installing packages and running commands and setting up all the files we need to get this running.

Windsurf Cascade vs. Cursor Composer Agent Side-by-Side Comparison

I've been using Cursor as my primary editor for over a year now, but recently I've heard wonderful things about Windsurf AI Agent features. I decided to record myself building out something I've always wanted to make, but never made the time for.

In this lesson, I demonstrate how to leverage Windsurf's powerful agent process to create a fun word-guessing game inspired by Heads Up. Watch as I build an interactive application featuring category selection and word navigation, complete with data hosting on GitHub Gists and deployment to GitHub Pages - all in under 30 minutes (before editing the lesson down to 12 minutes)!

What makes this project particularly exciting is how Windsurf eliminates the typical friction points of development. While this game was always on my project wishlist, the overhead of setup, configuration, and deployment made it hard to justify the time investment. Windsurf's agent process handles all these pain points seamlessly, from managing URLs to orchestrating deployment.

This lesson perfectly showcases how AI agents can help developers bring their backlog of project ideas to life, transforming what would typically be time-consuming tasks into efficient, enjoyable development experiences.

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