React State Management, Effects & Custom Hooks

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Learn to manage complex state with React Context and custom hooks while building real-world applications such as portfolio websites and interactive games. Dive into professional projects to practice dark/light mode, weather apps, and more, while understanding how to effectively use React's powerful state management features. With hands-on challenges, this course offers an engaging learning experience to ensure you build not just theoretical knowledge but also practical expertise. You will begin with understanding React Context, its common mistakes, and best practices. Then, you will learn how to incorporate React Context into a professional project—such as building a portfolio website with dark/light mode functionality. Through this, you will explore key concepts like component trees, managing state, and optimizing performance in React. Moving forward, you will develop key projects like the card flip game and weather app, using advanced hooks like useEffect and useRef. These projects will give you a clear understanding of handling side-effects and managing DOM elements efficiently. You will also dive into handling real-time data and dynamic content with React’s built-in hooks. This course is perfect for intermediate developers looking to solidify their React skills with projects that tackle real-world use cases. By the end of the course, you will be able to use React Context and hooks like useEffect and useRef to manage state, build interactive components, and persist dynamic content across different projects.