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

2 articles from 2026 · show all

July 2026

swizec.com is now on TimberJS, a new React framework

swizec.com is 20 years old and has gone through many rewrites. Here's the latest

June 2026

Using vibes to rewrite my blog

The death of engineering has been greatly exaggerated. You still need to know what you're doing.