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Gain insights into React updates since V16, including new lifecycle methods, context API, and hooks. Discover how to utilize these features for writing better modern React applications.

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What’s new with React? New lifecycle methods, context API, hooks, and lots more. While the fundamental principles of React have stayed the same, the way we write React apps has changed with each new release. If you learned React a while back, it’s possible that you haven’t been up to date with every new feature/release. It’s also possible to get lost in all the new features. Where exactly do you start? How important are they for your day to day use? This course is your one-stop reference to most important React updates since V16 was released. We’ll walk through all the major features of modern React so you can stay in sync with the most recent changes while learning to write better software.

What’s new with React? New lifecycle methods, context API, hooks, and lots more. While the fundamental principles of React have ...Show More

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62 Lessons3 Quizzes

Introduction

3 Lessons

Get familiar with React's evolution, modern features, and a creative learning approach.

Why Comics?

Why Reintroduce React?

What’s Changed Since Version 16?

Lifecycle

9 Lessons

Discover the logic behind the updated lifecycle methods and error handling in React.

New Lifecycle Methods

What’s Lifecycle Anyway?

Method 1: static getDerivedStateFromProps

Method 2: getSnapshotBeforeUpdate

Method 2: getSnapshotBeforeUpdate Extension in Detail

The Error Handling Lifecycle Methods

Method 1: static getDerivedStateFromError

Method 2: componentDidCatch

Conclusion

Context API

9 Lessons

Examine the Context API for efficient state management, avoiding prop drilling, and modularizing logic.

Simpler State Management with the Context API

Introduction to Context API

Provider and Consumer Components

Example: The Mini-Bank Application

Identifying Props being Drilled

Avoid Props Drilling with Context

Isolating Implementation Details

Updating Context Values

Conclusion

ContextType

3 Lessons

Apply your skills to manage context in React class components using contextType for better code structure.

Using Context without a Consumer

Using a Class Component with contextType

Conclusion

React.memo

4 Lessons

Solve problems in optimizing and improving functional components' performance with React.memo.

React.memo === Functional PureComponent

How React.memo works?

Handling Deeply Nested Props

Conclusion

The Profiler

14 Lessons

Tackle performance bottlenecks in React apps using the Profiler tool for optimization.

Identifying Performance Bottlenecks

Measuring Performance in React Apps

Getting Started

How does the Profiler Work?

Making Sense of the Profiler Results

The Flamegraph

The Ranked Chart

Component Stats

Example: Identifying Performance BottleNecks in the Bank App

Noting the Expected Behavior

Interpreting the Flamegraph

Profile Different Interactions

The Provider Value

Conclusion

Lazy Loading

8 Lessons

Practice using React.lazy and Suspense to optimize component loading and enhance performance.

Lazy Loading with React.lazy and Suspense

What is Lazy Loading?

Using React.lazy and Suspense

Handling Errors

No Named exports

Code Splitting Routes

Adding Lazy Loading to the Bank App

Conclusion

Hooks

11 Lessons

Learn how to use React Hooks to simplify state and side effect management.

Building Simpler React Apps

Introducing Hooks

The Candy Bowl - An Analogy

The State Hook

Multiple useState calls

Object as Initial Values

The Effect Hook

Passing Array Dependencies

Build Your Own Hooks

The Rules of Hooks

Advanced Hooks

Learn to Localize a React Web App Using React Intl

Project

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Discover the logic behind advanced React patterns and hooks to enhance your skills.

Where to Go from Here?

Certificate of Completion

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Ohans Emmanuel

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