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Alex Banks and Eve Porcello are software engineers and instructors specializing in JavaScript and React. They co-founded Moon Highway, a training company that teaches web development and GraphQL to teams worldwide.
Known for: Learning React: Modern Patterns for Developing React Apps
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Learning React: Modern Patterns for Developing React Apps
Learning React introduces developers to the fundamentals of building modern web applications using React. It covers core concepts such as components, JSX, state management, hooks, and the React ecosystem, providing practical examples and exercises to help readers build scalable and maintainable user interfaces.
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The Evolution of Front-End Development and the Rise of Components
Before React, web developers were trapped in loops of manual DOM updates—writing imperative code that constantly told the browser what to do step by step. This worked for simple sites, but as interfaces became more dynamic, the mismatch between user expectations and the developer’s workflow widened....
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Setting Up Your Development Environment
Before we can build with React, we prepare our tools. You’ll need Node.js and npm—the ecosystem that enables JavaScript applications to run and manage dependencies outside the browser. With these installed, the quickest path to starting is through *Create React App*, a toolkit that automates all con...
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About Alex Banks & Eve Porcello
Alex Banks and Eve Porcello are software engineers and instructors specializing in JavaScript and React. They co-founded Moon Highway, a training company that teaches web development and GraphQL to teams worldwide.
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