The React Cookbook: Recipes They Don’t Teach You
summary
Live coding shows concrete outcomes: implemented useMemo via useRef and then rederived useEffect/useCallback from that implementation; dug into Symbol.for to create valid React elements and created a multi‑window app using portals that keeps React state across OS windows; wrote a tiny createResource that throws promises to drive Suspense so async UI loads work without lazy or extra libs; all code runs live and is on GitHub.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:42Fundamentals over abstractions
- 4:15Learning React hooks
- 10:00React internals with useContext
- 12:49Deep API knowledge
- 13:52JavaScript symbols and React security
- 19:54Promises and React Suspense
- 24:54Splitting apps with Portals
- 28:29Closing remarks
