I am lazy, by default. Learning something new takes effort and time. So, I always start by asking “why should I learn this? How this insert here: framework, library, programing language will make my life easier?”

Recently I had to hold a React workshop for some developers from a company I am working with. Some of them were juniors and others where experienced backend devs, but, to my surprise, there were some common issue patterns that kept repeating for both categories. So, I’ve decided to make a list of these common mistakes hoping it will save you some moments of frustrations when you first start to learn React:

What is GraphQl and why should I be interested in it? In a nutshell, we can see GraphQL as a syntax that describes the data you get, usually from a backend API. It was created by Facebook and in most cases, it provides good solutions to REST API's problems.

If you are in the React world there are some pretty high chances you may have heard about Mobx. Mobx is a lightweight and easy to learn state management library developed by Michel Weststrate. Its 4th version was released a few weeks ago and it comes with a lot of new cool features.

Hello and welcome! A few days ago React 16.3 was released and alongside other things it also delivered a new React context API. The scope of this tutorial it will be to see in action this new React context API.