🚀 My React Journey

Welcome to My React Journey – a personal log of everything I'm learning as I dive into React.js. This repo includes practice projects, challenges, and code snippets that reflect my progress through the fundamentals of React.

✅ Section 4 Highlights (Completed)

• Meme Generator Starting Point
• Managing state for meme data
• Controlled Components (Part 1 & 2)
• Planning and performing data fetches
• Functional programming in React
• Fetching meme data from an API
• Introduction to useEffect
• useEffect syntax and default behavior
• Understanding the dependencies array
• useEffect with empty dependency array
• useEffect quizzes and practical exercises
• Using useEffect to fetch memes
• Combined state and effect practices
• Cleanup functions in useEffect
• Generating a random meme
• Introduction to useRef
• Practical use: scrollIntoView() with useRef
• Fixing iframe scroll bug

📌 Project 4: Meme Generator App

A fun and interactive project to generate memes with random images and custom text. Focus areas:

• Working with form inputs
• Fetching and managing meme data from an API
• Generating and displaying random images
• Leveraging useEffect and useRef

🔗 Live Demo: akbar-react-project-4.netlify.app 📂 Folder: React-project-4

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✅ React Course Completed!

🎉 I've officially completed the entire React course!
From static pages to full interactivity with forms, APIs, and hooks — this journey has been transformative.

🔜 What’s Next

I'm now planning to:

• Start building full-stack projects using React + external APIs
• Explore advanced patterns like context, reducers, and custom hooks
• Learn TypeScript for safer React development
• Dive into backend technologies (Node.js, Express, MongoDB)
• Deploy professional-level React apps

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🚀 How to Run Any Project Locally

cd project-folder-name
npm install
npm run dev