Navigating the React Ecosystem
summary
Explains concrete choices: recommends learning React deeply, highlights that hooks replace classes (hooks land in 16.8) and shows a counter example, endorses create-react-app for zero‑config builds and suggests Webpack for bundling, compares styling options and pushes Emotion after trying component CSS, contrasts reach router vs react‑router, compares React Final Form and Formik, covers fetch/Axios, Cypress and React Testing Library for tests, and argues prefer context+useReducer over Redux for many apps.
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chapters (35)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11React
- 10:07StitchFix
- 10:31Eventbrite
- 11:18React Ecosystem
- 11:52Tooling
- 12:13React Developer Tools
- 12:46React Bundlers
- 15:04Pico Web
- 15:16Task Runners
- 16:03Static Analyzers
- 17:31Create React App
- 18:21React Resources
- 18:47Global CSS
- 19:47Component CSS
- 21:08CSS Modules
- 21:55Vanilla CSS
- 24:10The Problem
- 24:58New Libraries
- 26:10Custom Styled Components
- 26:40Auto Generated Classes
- 27:17Data fetching
- 29:07Fetch API
- 29:56Routing
- 31:47Reach Router
- 32:30Forms
- 35:55Testing
- 40:04Cypress
- 40:32Recap
- 41:25Data Management
- 42:05Redux
- 44:22ToDos
- 44:59Immutability
- 46:20Produce
- 47:25Summary
