Adrianna Valdivia - A React Developer’s Guide to Tech Interviews
summary
Covers concrete interview formats and failures: common screens are take-home repos, pair programming and live assessments with no whiteboarding. Explains passing props and prop drilling tradeoffs, when to reach for React Context, and why current teams prefer Hooks over class lifecycle methods — useState plus useEffect for API calls rather than componentDidMount. Lists ES6 practicals (map vs forEach, arrow functions, let/const, destructuring, spread) and recommends Sets for uniqueness with better runtime than filter.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:52Overview
- 3:02Interpretation of React
- 3:44State and Props
- 4:29Prop Drilling
- 5:45Lifecycle Hooks
- 7:41Increasing React Versions
- 8:05Making API Calls
- 9:01JS Builtin Functions
- 9:43Map vs For Each
- 11:00Arrow Functions
- 12:38Destructuring
- 13:04Spread Operator
- 13:43Sets
- 15:02Resources
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