How do you Hover in ReactJS? – onMouseLeave not registered during fast hover over

How can you achieve either a hover event or active event in ReactJS when you do inline styling? I’ve found that the onMouseEnter, onMouseLeave approach is buggy, so hoping there is another way to do it. Specifically, if you mouse over a component very quickly, only the onMouseEnter event is registered. The onMouseLeave never fires, … Read more

Why is my asynchronous function returning Promise { } instead of a value?

The promise will always log pending as long as its results are not resolved yet. You must call .then on the promise to capture the results regardless of the promise state (resolved or still pending): Why is that? Promises are forward direction only; You can only resolve them once. The resolved value of a Promise is passed to its .then or .catch methods. … Read more

Cannot read property ‘bind’ of undefined. React.js

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/reusable-components.html#no-autobinding No Autobinding Methods follow the same semantics as regular ES6 classes, meaning that they don’t automatically bind this to the instance. You’ll have to explicitly use .bind(this) or arrow functions =>: You can use bind() to preserve this Or you can use arrow functions We recommend that you bind your event handlers in the constructor so they are … Read more

Using async/await with a forEach loop

Sure the code does work, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t do what you expect it to do. It just fires off multiple asynchronous calls, but the printFiles function does immediately return after that. Reading in sequence If you want to read the files in sequence, you cannot use forEach indeed. Just use a modern for … of loop instead, in which await will … Read more

Encode HTML entities in JavaScript

You can use regex to replace any character in a given unicode range with its html entity equivalent. The code would look something like this: This code will replace all characters in the given range (unicode 00A0 – 9999, as well as ampersand, greater & less than) with their html entity equivalents, which is simply &#nnn; where nnn is … Read more