Gain insights into React updates since V16, including new lifecycle methods, context API, and hooks. Discover how to utilize these features for writing better modern React applications.

What’s new with React? New lifecycle methods, context API, hooks, and lots more. While the fundamental principles of React have stayed the same, the way we write React apps has changed with each new release.  

If you learned React a while back, it’s possible that you haven’t been up to date with every new feature/release. It’s also possible to get lost in all the new features. Where exactly do you start? How important are they for your day to day use?

This course is your one-stop reference to most important React updates since V16 was released. We’ll walk through all the major features of modern React so you can stay in sync with the most recent changes while learning to write better software.

Reintroducing React: V16 and Beyond

# About Me

I have been writing software for over 5 years, but I have done other things too. I’ve been a graphic designer, a published author, teacher, and a long, long time ago, an amateur illustrator.

# Technical Community

I love the tech community, but sometimes, as a group, we tend to be a little narrow-minded. 

When people attempt to teach new technical concepts, they usually forget who they were before they became developers and just churn out a lot of technical jargon, just like other developers they’ve seen. 

When you get to know people though, it turns out that many of us have diverse backgrounds! If you were a comedian, why not explain technical concepts with some comedy?

Wouldn’t that would be so cool?

I want to show how we can become better as engineers, as teams, and as a community by openly being our full, weird selves and **teaching others with all that personality.** But rather than just talking, I want to make it noteworthy and lead by example. So, welcome to my rendition of a comics-inspired course about every React update since v16.

Following the release of the v16.8 features, there are a lot of informative comics to be delivered!

Inspired by [Jani Eväkallio](https://twitter.com/jevakallio?lang=en).


Introduction

Lifecycle

Context API

ContextType

React.memo

The Profiler

Lazy Loading

Hooks

Conclusion

Why Comics?

About Me

Technical Community