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Deploying your MERN project with Heroku (using your Master Git Branch)

Heroku is an excellent service that specializes in making deployment of your web application quick and painless. Fortunately for us, it also has a free tier that will be perfect for our needs. There will only be a little bit of setup needed to get your web app up and

React Developer Tools

React Developer Tools Developing React apps becomes a lot more pleasant when you utilize the React Devtools. In many ways, it looks like your DOM tree does in the elements tab, and you will explore it in the same way. Installation Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-tools/

React Context

In a typical React application, data is passed top-down (parent to child) via props, but this can be cumbersome for certain types of props (e.g. locale preference, UI theme) that are required by many components within an application.

Render Props

Render-props is a composition pattern that makes reusing React components many times easier. They are very similar to Higher Order Components with some notable differences; one being that they are quite a bit more configurable.

Higher Order Components

Higher order components, or HOC's, are simply functions that take React Components as arguments, or return them as values, or both.

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