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Daniel Bugl
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Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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Handling state with class components

Before we start migrating from class components to Hooks, we are going to create a small ToDo list app using React class components. In the next section, we are going to turn these class components into function components using Hooks. Finally, we are going to compare the two solutions.

Designing the app structure

As we did before with the blog app, we are going to start by thinking about the basic structure of our app. For this app, we are going to need the following features:

  • A header
  • A way to add new todo items
  • A way to show all todo items in a list
  • A filter for the todo items

It is always a good idea to start with a mock-up. So, let's begin:

  1. We start by drawing a mock-up of...
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Daniel Bugl

Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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