Outline

So now we’ve reached the end of The Road to Learn React. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope it helped you to gain some traction in React. If you liked the course, tell your friends about it.

So, where can you go from here? I recommend you extend the application on your own, so eventually,​ you can start creating your very own React projects. Consider doing this before you dive into another course or tutorial. Do it for one week, take it to production by deploying it, and reach out to me me or others to showcase it. I am always interested in seeing what my readers built and helping them along.

If you are looking for more extensions for your application, I recommend several learning paths after you’ve mastered the basics:

• Connecting to a Database and/or Authentication: In a growing React application, you may want to persist data eventually. The data should be stored in a database so it can survive after a browser session, and so it can be shared across different users using your application. The simplest way to introduce a database is Firebase. In this tutorial, you will find a step-by-step guide on how to use Firebase authentication in React. Beyond that, you can use Firebase’s real-time database to store user entities.

• State Management: You have used React ...