Joel Olawanle

Articles: 61

Joined: Feb 07, 2022

Frontend Developer & Technical Writer

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Guide to Lazy Loading With React

When developing large React applications, we typically use many images and videos, install third-party packages/libraries, make API calls, and do a variety of other things. That naturally increases the time it takes to load our application and results in a massive bundle size, which contributes to a poor user...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 15, 2022·9 min read

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Loading... Animation in Vanilla JavaScript

When developing websites and web applications, including a loading animation can improve the user experience significantly by communicating what's going on. This engages users and keeps their attention while loading the content, and it helps users understand what is going on rather than leaving them guessing. In this guide, we'll...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 14, 2022·10 min read

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How to Send Headers With an Axios POST Request

Axios is an HTTP client library that is used to send asynchronous HTTP requests such as POST, GET, and DELETE to REST endpoints (mainly APIs). Some of these requests, such as GET and POST, can include headers, which provide an additional source of information for each API call. In this...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 13, 2022·3 min read

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Sending POST JSON Requests With Axios

Axios is a promise-based HTTP client library that makes it simple to send asynchronous HTTP requests (such as POST, GET, and DELETE) to REST endpoints, mainly APIs. In this article, we will learn how to send POST JSON requests with Axios, and how to handle both previously serialized and unserialized...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 08, 2022·4 min read

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How to Create a Loading Animation in React with react-spinners

When creating React applications that fetch content from external sources that take some time to load, it is always a good idea to provide a pleasant user experience by engaging users and keeping their attention with a loader, as this helps users understand what is going on rather than leaving...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 07, 2022·6 min read

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How to Create a Loading Animation in React from Scratch

Joel Olawanle

Jun 06, 2022·12 min read

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Guide to Vue Router Redirects

When developing web applications with Vue.js that have many pages and incorporate many features such as logging in, authentication, carting, as well as a good deal of CRUD applications, we will need to implement routing at some point, which involves redirecting a user from one page to another either...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 02, 2022·8 min read

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Guide to Vue Props

Vue is a JavaScript framework that allows developers to create components that are used to divide the user interface into smaller pieces, rather than building the entire UI in a single file. When using components, we may want to pass data down from the parent component to the child component...

Joel Olawanle

Jun 01, 2022·10 min read

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JavaScript: How to Count the Number of Substring Occurrences in a String

When working with strings or large amounts of text, you are probably going to encounter situations where you need to count how many times a specific substring occurred within another string. In this article, we'll take a look at how to use JavaScript to count the number of substring occurrences...

Joel Olawanle

May 30, 2022·12 min read