Day 26: UI.dev React Course - part one

I have done three different intro courses on React already, but I still like to try more courses with new topics that are I have not learned. Currently, I am following Tyler Mcginnis' React courses. It has sections on Higher-Order Components. I am looking forward to that next!

Today was mostly reviewing what I already know, so I covered 42% of the course.

What I found meaningful during this review were five ways of binding this keyword and the component lifecycle functions.

The five ways of binding this keyword:

• Implicit Binding - most used, refers to the object that is on the left of the dot when the function is invoked
• Explicit Binding - use call, apply, and bind
• new keyword Binding - creates a new this object under the hood
• Lexical Binding - use the arrow function to solve this explicit binding in handlers
• window Binding - default to the window object, but ‘use strict’ to prevent this behavior

Also, the overview on the component lifecycle functions is great.

componentDidUpdate and componentWillUnmount are functions I need to practice!

Overall, I spent 5.5 hours on the course.