React Interview Guide Learn All You Need to Know to Ace Any React Interview and Land Your Dream Job

Build your confidence in tackling React job interviews with this comprehensive guide covering a wide range of React ecosystem questions the latest advancements in React Key Features Boost your interview success by mastering React interview strategies Quickly acquaint yourself with the latest React f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jonna, Sudheer, author (author), Baisden, Andrew, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd [2023]
Edición:First edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009784625906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Getting Ready for Interviews
  • Chapter 1: Bracing Yourself for Interview Preparation
  • Preparing your resume and cover letter
  • Differentiating between a resume and a cover letter
  • The significance of having an excellent resume and cover letter
  • Exploring types of resumes
  • Key elements of a good resume
  • Key elements of a good cover letter
  • Examining job descriptions
  • Identifying key skills and accomplishments
  • Common resume mistakes to avoid
  • Researching the company
  • Common cover letter mistakes to avoid
  • Building your GitHub profile or website portfolio
  • Benefits of building a GitHub profile or website portfolio for finding work
  • How to make your GitHub profile or website portfolio stand out from the rest
  • What kind of content you should include in your portfolio
  • Examples of innovative portfolio pieces and how they can help you land a job
  • Pros and cons of using a third-party portfolio building website versus DIY
  • Finding jobs to apply for
  • Understanding your career goals and targeting specific job postings
  • Utilizing job boards to search for relevant opportunities
  • Networking offline and online
  • Researching companies and learning about their current job openings
  • Using online resources such as Indeed to research salaries and more
  • Understanding the role of meetups and referrals
  • What meetups are and why they are important for job seekers
  • Tips on how to find the right meetup group for you
  • Benefits of attending meetups
  • How to get the most out of a meetup
  • The importance of referrals in getting a job
  • Tips on how to get referrals
  • Exploring interview tips
  • Preparing for a potential technical interview
  • Researching the company
  • Practicing your questions and answers.
  • Dressing appropriately
  • Being confident
  • Following up after the interview
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Mastering the Core React Technical Interview
  • Chapter 2: Understanding ReactJS Fundamentals and Its Features
  • Prerequisites to ReactJS
  • Introduction to ReactJS
  • What is React?
  • What are the reasons for choosing React for programming?
  • What are the major features of React?
  • Understanding JSX
  • What is JSX?
  • Why can't browsers understand JSX?
  • What are the advantages of JSX?
  • Building views with elements and components
  • What are components?
  • What are the different ways to create components?
  • What is the difference between an element and a component?
  • What are pure components?
  • What is a higher-order component?
  • What are fragments and where do you use them?
  • Controlling component data using props and state
  • What are props in React?
  • Can you describe state in React?
  • What are the main differences between props and state?
  • How does React batch multiple state updates?
  • Can you prevent automatic batching?
  • How do you update objects inside the state?
  • How do you update nested state objects?
  • Understanding the importance of key props
  • What is a key prop and what is the purpose of it?
  • Learning about event handling
  • What are synthetic events?
  • How do you differentiate between React event handling and HTML event handling?
  • How do you bind event handlers in class components?
  • Understanding virtual DOM
  • What is virtual DOM?
  • How does virtual DOM work?
  • What is Shadow DOM?
  • What is the difference between Real DOM, virtual DOM, and Shadow DOM?
  • What is React Fiber?
  • Data flow and communication in React applications
  • Can you describe unidirectional data flow in React?
  • What are the advantages of unidirectional data flow?
  • How do you access DOM?
  • What are refs? How do you create refs?.
  • What is the main purpose of refs?
  • How do you compare refs with state?
  • What are forward refs?
  • Managing state globally using the context API
  • What is prop drilling?
  • Can you describe context?
  • What is the purpose of context?
  • Understanding the server-side rendering technique
  • What is server-side rendering?
  • What is the main difference between server-side rendering and client-side rendering?
  • When do you need to use server-side rendering?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Hooks: Bring State and Other Features into Function Components
  • Introduction to Hooks and their purpose
  • What are Hooks?
  • What is the motivation behind Hooks?
  • Can you describe the rules of Hook usage?
  • Can I use Hooks inside class components?
  • Local state management using Hooks
  • What is the useState Hook?
  • Is it always recommended to use an updater function?
  • What is a useReducer Hook? How do you use it?
  • When should you use the useReducer Hook over the useState Hook?
  • Global state management using Hooks
  • How do you override context for a specific part of the component tree?
  • What would the context value be for no matching provider?
  • Performing side effects in React applications
  • How do reactive dependencies impact the logic inside the useEffect Hook?
  • How often are setup and cleanup functions invoked inside the useEffect Hook?
  • When should you remove an object or a function from dependencies?
  • What is the useLayoutEffect Hook? How does it work?
  • Optimizing the application performance
  • What is memoization? How can it be implemented in React?
  • Can you describe the useMemo() Hook?
  • What are the possible use cases of the useMemo() Hook?
  • What are common mistakes with the usage of useMemo? How do you rectify them?
  • When should you use the useCallback Hook instead of the useMemo Hook?
  • Accessing DOM nodes using ref Hooks.
  • How do you avoid recreating the Ref contents?
  • Is it possible to access a ref in the render method?
  • How do you expose a subset of methods from a ref instance?
  • Learning about popular third-party Hooks
  • What is the useImmer Hook? What is its purpose?
  • Building your own Hooks
  • What are custom Hooks? How do you create them?
  • What are the benefits of custom Hooks?
  • Should you still consider using render props and HOCs?
  • Do you recommend moving effects into custom Hooks?
  • Troubleshooting and debugging Hooks
  • How do you debug custom Hooks?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Handling Routing and Internationalization
  • Technical requirements
  • Navigating screens and an introduction to React Router
  • What is the purpose of the React Router library?
  • How does navigating between screens work in React Router?
  • Routes, types of routes, and links
  • What types of routes can we use?
  • How do you create a route and a link?
  • Adding routes
  • Accessing URL parameters
  • Nesting routes
  • Dynamic routes
  • Error pages
  • Internationalization and localization
  • What is internationalization?
  • What is localization?
  • Adding translations and formatted messages
  • What are translations?
  • What are formatted messages?
  • Passing arguments and placeholders
  • How do we pass arguments?
  • How do we use placeholders?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Advanced Concepts of ReactJS
  • Exploring portals
  • What are portals? How do you create them?
  • What are the common use cases of portals?
  • How does event bubbling work inside portals?
  • What accessibility precautions are taken care of in portals?
  • Understanding error boundaries
  • What are error boundaries?
  • Is it possible to create an error boundary as a function component?
  • When do error boundaries not work?
  • Managing asynchronous actions with the Suspense API.
  • What is the Suspense API? How do you use it?
  • Can I use the suspense component for any kind of data fetching?
  • How do you prevent unnecessary fallbacks during an update?
  • Optimizing rendering performance using concurrent rendering
  • How do you enable concurrent rendering in React?
  • Debugging React applications with the Profiler API
  • How do you measure rendering performance?
  • Strict mode
  • How do you enable strict mode?
  • Can you describe the list of development-only checks enabled by strict mode?
  • What functions are called twice in the double rendering process of strict mode?
  • Static type checking
  • What are the benefits of static type checking?
  • How do you implement static type checking in React applications?
  • React in mobile environments and its features
  • What is React Native?
  • What are the differences between React and React Native?
  • Can you describe the React Native architecture based on the threading model?
  • How do you perform navigations in React Native?
  • What are the benefits of the new architecture?
  • What is view flattening?
  • Summary
  • Part 3: Going Beyond React and Advanced Topics
  • Chapter 6: Redux: The Best State Management Solution
  • Understanding the Flux pattern and Redux
  • What is the Flux pattern? Can you explain the data flow?
  • What are the advantages of Flux?
  • How do you differentiate Flux from MVC?
  • What is Redux?
  • What are the differences between Flux and Redux?
  • When do you need to use Redux?
  • Core principles of Redux, components, and APIs
  • What are the core principles of Redux?
  • How does Redux work? What are the main components of Redux?
  • Can I use Redux with non-React UI libraries?
  • What are the rules followed by reducers?
  • What is the difference between the mapStateToProps() and mapDispatchToProps() methods?
  • What is a store enhancer?.
  • Redux middleware - Saga and Thunk.