Journal 47
July 1 - July 7 Through this week's lab and videos, React introduced the idea of building an application out of reusable components that each manage their own functionality. Each component can have its own state while also receiving data from a parent component through props. Learning the difference between state and props was one of the biggest concepts for me, and presented itself in various questions on the quiz, so I'm glad I looked deeper into the topics. State is used to manage data that changes within a component, while props are used to pass information from one component to another and remain immutable. The lab really helped reinforce these concepts by walking us through the building of several React components that communicated with a Spring Boot backend. The most interesting part of the assignment was creating the new Settings component, because I finally got to apply some hands on work with what I learned in the demo videos. I liked that the component had to make ...