Recoil in action: Building a reusable code block component
Blog post from LogRocket
The tutorial outlines the process of creating a multi-language code snippet block for blogs or developer documentation using React with a VS Code-like styling, enhanced by React Recoil to remember the user's language preference. It starts with setting up a project structure using Node and pre-installed dependencies like node-sass and prism-react-renderer for SCSS styling and syntax highlighting, respectively. The code snippet component is divided into CodeSnippet for displaying code with syntax highlights and CodeGroup for wrapping the component with multi-language support. Recoil, a state management library, is utilized to persist the user's language choice across multiple pages and sessions, with further enhancements using recoil-persist for session persistence. The tutorial also includes instructions on integrating LogRocket for error tracking in React applications.