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From JSX to Browser with React 18: Your First Component, Demystified
My day started with mango oatmeal, a gecko on the wall, and a Slack ping from Valentina—our newest junior dev in Bogotá.“Why won’t my button render? I copied the tutorial exactly!”I glanced at her repo while the sun crawled over the Indian Ocean. One missing import and an outdated ReactDOM.render was holding her back. Twenty…
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Upgrading to React 18 from a Beach-Side Café
The sun wasn’t supposed to get this hot at 9 a.m., but here I was—laptop balanced on a wobbly café table, toes buried in Nicaraguan sand—trying to explain React 18’s new createRoot API to a mentee in Warsaw. He shared his screen; I shared mine. Zoom lagged. A rogue sea breeze slammed my CSS hot-reload…