**Note: this section is under construction**
Welcome to my notes on React. I (like many full-stack engineers) have been using React for a very long time (by my standards for long); its compositional tree-like structure makes intuitive sense, and I’ve always appreciated its helpful community, a side effect of its widespread adoption.
However, most of my learning of React has been on a need-to-know basis (for example, needing to cache api calls and thus conssulting the documentation to pick up that skill). This isn’t necessarily a bad approach to master a topic, but I’ve recently decided to try being more of a “read-the-full-manual-a-couple-times” kind of guy. And so, I decided to learn all the principles of React from scratch.
After some exploration, I couldn’t find any book nearly as well-written or up to date as the official documentation itself, so I used it as my main text!
This section is a (hopefully) well put together collection of my reference notes after that deep dive.
Why learn react?
Before we dive into React, let’s understand why you should care about it in the first place. It’s a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, primarily for web applications, and is useful for
- Creating dynamic and interactive web applications with efficient UI updates and rendering.
- Building large-scale applications with reusable components and efficient data management.
What can you do with this information?
If you’re anything like me, you’d love to learn this for no reason - but it’s good to know what skills you can expect to learn with this content.
With the materials in these pages, you should be able to build:
- Any fully reactive Single Page Application (SPA) that dynamically updates the UI without reloading the page.
- Components that are reusable across different parts of your application or even in different projects.
- Complex applications with state management, using tools like Redux or React’s own Context API.
- Integration with APIs and external data sources to fetch, display, and manage data.
- Modern web applications with features like routing, lazy loading, and asynchronous data handling.
Dive into the content!
I’d recommend reading in order of the TOC, but I’ve tried to make the information as atomic as possible- enjoy!
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