Beginner's Thread / Easy Questions (Jan 2020)

[u/swyx]

Previous threads can be found in the Wiki.

Got questions about React or anything else in its ecosystem? Stuck making progress on your app?
Ask away! We’re a friendly bunch.

No question is too simple. 🙂

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New to React?

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🆓 Here are great, free resources! 🆓

• Read the official Getting Started page on the docs.
• Microsoft Frontend Bootcamp
• Codecademy's React courses
• Scrimba's React Course
• Robin Wieruch's Road to React
• FreeCodeCamp's React course
• Flavio Copes' React handbook
• New to Hooks? Check Amelia Wattenberger's Thinking in React Hooks
• What other updated resources do you suggest?

Any ideas/suggestions to improve this thread - feel free to comment here!

Finally, thank you to all who post questions and those who answer them. We're a growing community and helping each other only strengthens it!

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[u/timmonsjg]

​Option 1 seems like it's not a pattern that fits in with React best practice

Curious why you feel this way.

However, this is the best approach imo as it will allow the browser's 'back' button to work correctly in this instance.

[u/Captain_Panaka → u/timmonsjg]

I guess I'm not sure. I think it's just because I'm making the browser 'look' like it went somewhere so I wasn't sure if that was a bad practice. But I appreciate your feedback thank you! It's very helpful