I wanted to add autocomplete to the shopping list, hopefully making it easier to build them. Using Reactjs made it very difficult to use out of the box autocompletes like typeahead and jquery ui autocomplete because Reactjs uses a virtual dom. Another requirement I wanted was to display the suggestions above the input making it a… Continue reading Simple Reactjs AutoComplete using Typehead’s Bloodhound
When working with a team of frontend developers/designers or working by yourself, having a components list of what css is available to you can be a real time saver. I don’t know how much longer I would have taken without bootstraps components. There is a small rails gem (component_library)[https://github.com/richarcher/component_library] that allows you to build your… Continue reading Building a component library
Now that I have manage to write a few components using reactjs/rails and I feel I understand the basics of reactjs, I wanted to be able to write tests for my components. I looked into using jasmine-rails for testing my components. Installing it was as simple as following the Gems README. You will need PhantomJS… Continue reading Writing jasmine test for reactjs components on Ruby on Rails
Grant Petersen-Speelman 