Introduction I've recently started learning React. I've been a backend developer for a long time, but have started to love doing client side work. As they say, the best way to learn is to practise. So here is a simple joke application that I've written in React. The source code for the application can be found on GitHub at: https://github.com/doobrie/react-joke Creating the project Whilst practising, I've quite often created projects from scratch, but this is quite tedious as the same steps need to be taken for each project. I needed to create the project structure, configure Babel, write some control scripts etc. Instead of doing that this time, I've used the create-react-app tool to scaffold the basics of an application. npx create-react-app This sets up everything that you need to get started with a React app. Coding As this is a simple project, I've created one react component, function app() . I've created this as a functional c...
I'm using Pop!_OS on my current machine, and have the Gnome desktop enabled. I'm always on the lookout for good tweaks and one that I like is Dash To Dock that turns the standard Dashboard along the left hand side of the screen into a dock, similar to on MacOS. I really like this extension as it fits my workflow better to have a dock on my screen that automatically hides when a window covers it. You can add your favourite applications to it and also add the application launcher. I'm currently running Gnome version 3.38.3 and there's a small bug that makes the application launcher flicker when its opened. Fortunately, there is a simple fix described here . On my machine, this meant editing the ~\.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/docking.js file and editing the if (animate) { clause at line 1896 to read: if (animate) { Main.overview.viewSelector._activePage = Main.overview.viewSelector._appsPage; Meta.later_add(Meta...