Summary
Like many programmers, I started my career more comfortable on the back end. Unlike many, I now love React.1 Here are some things I've found myself repeating to colleagues who don't feel comfortable on the front end. One-way data flow (see here) is the single most important conceptual point to internalize. There are many, many React concepts, many of which you can defer studying, but do your best to internalize this one. Because the data flow works like this, you can think of a React component ...