#react

Have you ever wondered why your component is re-rendering multiple time consecutively when you only expect it to re-render once? Perhaps you update some local state and somehow multiple renders occur as a result? Lets take this hooks based example:

Ever since I learnt how to create websites using React, my go to boilerplate starter code was to use Create React App. It is the easiest way to learn React and the fastest way to get a website up and running. After creating my own website using Create React App, I quickly found the pitfalls of having a client rendered SPA (Single Page Application).