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Maximilian Schwarzmüller
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Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Academind GmbH - Online Education: Bundling the courses and know-how of successful instructors, Academind strives to deliver high-quality online education. Online education, real-life success—that's what Academind stands for. Learn topics such as web development, data analysis, and more in a fun and engaging way. Maximilian Schwarzmüller: Since the age of 13, Maximilian Schwarzmüller has never stopped learning new programming skills and languages. In the early days, he started creating websites for friends and for fun. This passion has remained and shaped his decision to work as a freelance web developer and consultant. The success and fun he has in this job is immense and really keeps that passion alive. Although he started web development on the backend (PHP with Laravel and NodeJS), he has increasingly become a front-end developer using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or VueJS 2 in a lot of projects. As a self-taught developer, he had broadened his horizon by studying business administration, resulting in a master's degree. This enabled him to work in a major strategy consultancy as well as a bank. Whilst learning and developing his skills, he realized that he enjoyed development more than these fields. As a self-taught professional, Max is familiar with the difficult topics when learning new or improving on already-known languages. This background and experience enables him to focus on the most relevant key concepts and topics. His track record is the best proof of that. Whether working as a development instructor or teaching business administration, he always receives great feedback. The most rewarding experience is to see how people find new and better jobs, build awesome web applications, acquire amazing projects, or simply enjoy their hobby with the help of his content.
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  • React embraces components: reusable building blocks that are combined to define the final user interface
  • Components must return renderable content, typically JSX code which defines the HTML code that should be produced in the end
  • React provides a lot of built-in components: besides special components like <>…</> you get components for all standard HTML elements
  • To allow React to tell custom components apart from built-in components, custom component names have to start with capital characters, when being used inside of JSX code (typically, PascalCase naming is used therefore)
  • JSX is neither HTML nor a standard JavaScript feature, instead it's syntactical sugar provided by build workflows that are part of all React projects
  • You could replace JSX code with React.createElement(…) calls; but since this leads to significantly more unreadable code, it's typically avoided.
  • When using JSX elements, you...
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Academind GmbH - Online Education: Bundling the courses and know-how of successful instructors, Academind strives to deliver high-quality online education. Online education, real-life success—that's what Academind stands for. Learn topics such as web development, data analysis, and more in a fun and engaging way. Maximilian Schwarzmüller: Since the age of 13, Maximilian Schwarzmüller has never stopped learning new programming skills and languages. In the early days, he started creating websites for friends and for fun. This passion has remained and shaped his decision to work as a freelance web developer and consultant. The success and fun he has in this job is immense and really keeps that passion alive. Although he started web development on the backend (PHP with Laravel and NodeJS), he has increasingly become a front-end developer using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or VueJS 2 in a lot of projects. As a self-taught developer, he had broadened his horizon by studying business administration, resulting in a master's degree. This enabled him to work in a major strategy consultancy as well as a bank. Whilst learning and developing his skills, he realized that he enjoyed development more than these fields. As a self-taught professional, Max is familiar with the difficult topics when learning new or improving on already-known languages. This background and experience enables him to focus on the most relevant key concepts and topics. His track record is the best proof of that. Whether working as a development instructor or teaching business administration, he always receives great feedback. The most rewarding experience is to see how people find new and better jobs, build awesome web applications, acquire amazing projects, or simply enjoy their hobby with the help of his content.
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