Before starting my new role as a developer it was recommend I learn some React. Coincidentally my favorite instructor released a course on React in the 4 weeks leave I had before starting the new role. The course focused entirely on React UI for the front end development of a Writing and Social application.

The React UI application you build in the course feels super fast and responsive – like most modern web applications. Most of what you learn in building a React application seems to be to do with managing state. Your code needs to be structured in a way that you notify the framework of state changes. You then let React magically manage and display those state changes as required.

The React framework allows you to write clean and scalable code through UI components. The course covers the following in relation to building a React application:

• Working with JSX
• “Hook” approach with Function Components
• Managing “state” through use of Context, Reducer and Immer
• Using Router for a Single Page Application
• Suspense for lazy loading
• Asynchronous API calls

Although not the focus of the course, the project also includes:

• NPM and Webpack
• MongoDB for database storage
• A Node Javascript Webserver
• Deployment of application to Netlify

You can find details on my project and learnings here.