Learn Microsoft, Recompose and Tachyons

***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.

React is one of the web’s most popular frameworks for building JavaScript applications. 

If you know what you’re doing, React can drastically simplify how you build, use, and maintain code.

Whether you’re a React newbie or you’re ready for advanced techniques, you can level-up with egghead. Explore our in-depth courses, lessons, and community resources to build more powerful applications and crack open your career.

react

Build React Components from Streams with RxJS and Recompose

In this course, you will learn to use many of the most powerful and convenient higher-order components within Recompose by coding several real-world examples. Using recompose looks very different from “vanilla” React; so you will also get comfortable with the look and feel of a “recomposed” component. The best part is no more need for class components! You’ll learn how to use Recompose to both modify components and also create your own higher-order components.

Higher Order Components with Functional Patterns Using 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

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry.

microsoft

Learn the various ways to access and enable High Contrast Mode on Windows.

Enable High Contrast Mode on Windows

We should not use color alone as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.  Users may not be able to see/understand the differences in color and require additional indicators.

Along with color, use additional indicators such as:
* typography
* shapes
* grids
* spaces
* and/or allocate more weight to important elements

## References:
* http://www.particletree.com/features/interfaces-and-color-blindness/
* https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/10/color-contrast-tips-and-tools-for-accessibility/

Use More than Color Alone to Convey Information in a Web Page

Just about every tool in our accessibility auditing toolkit can help us identify any issues with sufficient color contrast ratio on a web page.  The react-axe library and axe browser extension both report findings on all elements with insufficient contrast ratios.  The tota11y browser extension will annotate any elements with their contrast ratios and color those that are insufficient in red.  

Additionally, we need to use our experience tools to see what some of our users out there may we seeing.  We need to test with high contrast browser extensions as well as the display settings in Windows and Mac.  If our users with visual impairments are using these tools we need to see what our application looks like using them because we may find that under a certain mode some things may suddenly be harder to read or virtually invisible.

## Resources
* https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/02/12/high-contrast-aria-and-images.html

Test for Insufficient Color Contrast Accessibility Issues

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 'withReducer' higher order component using the alternative reducer form. If you like using reducers in redux, you’ll be able to reuse that same technique but for local state.

Add Local State with Redux-like Reducers using Recompose

Learn the proper patterns for writing a higher order component from scratch.

Write a Higher Order Component from Scratch

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

Learn how to use the 'lifecycle' higher-order component to conveniently use hooks without using a class component.

Add Lifecycle Hooks to a Functional Stateless Component using Recompose

Learn how to use the ‘flattenProp’ higher order component to take a single object prop and spread each of its fields out as a prop.

Flatten a Prop using 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 to use the 'branch' and 'renderComponent' higher-order components to show a spinner while a component loads.

Show a Spinner While a Component is Loading using 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

Vue (pronounced /vjuː/, like view) is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. On the other hand, Vue is also perfectly capable of powering sophisticated Single-Page Applications when used in combination with modern tooling and supporting libraries.

You can easily add CSS libraries to Nuxt using `yarn` or `npm` to install them, then simply adding them to the `nuxt.config.js` so they're included in each page. Then all the classes will be available for use in all of your templates. This lesson walks your through installing a library then adding it to your `nuxt.config.js`.

Add CSS Libraries to Nuxt

In CSS we use the descendant selector to style elements based on their nesting. Thankfully in React we don't need to consider this most of the time because this nesting of elements happens within the bounds of a single component.

However occasionally the nesting of components affects the styles. In these rare cases we can use context to influence styles yielding a user friendly api to our components.

Topics

Instructors

Content Type