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πŸ—“οΈ Week 4 Recap β€” Learning by Building Mini Projects

Hey everyone πŸ‘‹
This week marks Week 4 of my learning journey, and I decided to take things a bit further by building instead of just watching tutorials.

I made two mini projects this week:

πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈ 1. Steps App

This was my first small project of the week. It helped me understand how to handle user interactions and manage basic state changes in React.

πŸ›’ 2. Listo App

The second one β€” Listo App β€” is still in progress. It’s a modern grocery list app inspired by my course project Far Away (Packing List App).
I wanted to give it a cleaner and more modern UI while keeping the same concept of organizing items efficiently.


🧠 What I Learned This Week

While building these projects, I practiced and improved several React fundamentals:

  • Handling events ⚑
  • Using state with useState
  • Building layouts 🧩
  • Rendering lists dynamically πŸ“‹
  • Creating forms ✏️
  • Working with controlled elements πŸ”„

πŸ’¬ Reflection

This week taught me how much faster you can learn by building instead of just watching or reading.
Even though my second app isn’t fully ready yet, I can already feel my confidence growing with every small project I make.

Can’t wait to share my next progress soon πŸš€

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