Take your React beyond the tutorial

React is here to stay. It solves many problems you may not even know existed. These essays are the good stuff I learned over the years.

Learning from tutorials is easy. You follow some steps, learn a smol lesson, and feel like you got dis 💪

Then comes the interview, a real world problem, or a question from the boss. Your mind goes blank. Shit, how does this work again ...

Happens to everyone. Building is harder than recognizing and the real world is a mess! Nothing fits in neat little boxes you learned about in tutorials.

That's where my emails come in – lessons from experience. Building production software :)

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Latest React articles from Swizec

7 articles from December 2016 · show all

Animating 2048 SVG nodes in React, Preact, Inferno, Vue, Angular 2, and CycleJS – a side-by-side comparison

Livecoding #29: Optimizing React choropleth map rendering

Using HOCs to DRY up your code

Dancing tree fractal with React

Fun surprise: UglifyJS can't ES6

Livecoding #28: Productizing the door-answering Slack bot, Part 1

One awkward thing about MobX: Complex models