Build a "Name Picker" app - Intro to React, Hooks & Context API
Instructor
Simon Vrachliotis
In this beginner friendly series on React, we'll start a new project from scratch with Create React App, and step by step, build a functional and relatively useful React app that lets you find inspiration on "baby names", with search and shortlisting functionality.
Through the lessons, we'll cover an introduction to JSX, approach concepts like props, state, React hooks, "thinking in components", and embrace a progressive refactoring mindset.
Once the app is complete, we'll look at how to reduce prop drilling with the use of the Context API, and we'll even create our own custom React hook!
Learner Reviews
- FELIX MELENDEZ5 months agoWhat did you like about this course?
Straight to the point! I liked how the migration from prop drilling to the use of useContext hook was handled by the author.
- Gina Mariani2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Great quick and dirty project to get some practice of concepts you have learned before.
- Learner2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Now I understand better the context API
- gnadenthal3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Nice quick and clear explanations.
- Mouzayan4 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Excellent course! Super clear and very informative for someone who is not very accustomed to hooks and context api. Looking forward to more from Simon.
- Andrea Barghigiani4 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Quick and well explained course to use mostly as a refresher than a proper way to study React. Really nice to follow it step by step and apply the refactoring adviced from the instructor.
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