Joel Olawanle

Articles: 63

Joined: Feb 07, 2022

Frontend Developer & Technical Writer

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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

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Convert Form Data to JavaScript Object

When working with forms in JavaScript, you'll typically need to convert form data to a JavaScript object (JSON) in order to populate an array, database, local storage, send it to an API, or even consume the data in your application. Conversion between form data and JSON is one of the...

Joel Olawanle

May 25, 2022·10 min read

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Guide to the Ternary Operator in JavaScript

A ternary operator is a three-operand operator that is supported in most programming languages, including JavaScript, Java, C++, C#, and many others. It is also referred to as a conditional operator because it is considered to be a more concise alternative to the conditional (if-else) statement. In this guide, we...

Joel Olawanle

May 24, 2022·9 min read