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With the introduction of Facebook’s create-react-app CLI tool, much of the configuration and labor of setting up React.js applications were abstracted away. While this one-liner command is too good to be true, it is helpful to understand some of the mechanisms going on under the hood. Two important configuration tools…

Perhaps one of the rare instances being shallow is welcomed... Before we get into shallow merging though, let’s talk briefly about React Components and state. React Components help us break down the user interface (UI) into smaller parts, keeping our code organized and modular. We are able to send data…

Let’s say we have a User model that has associations with the models Listing and Review, like so: But as we are building these associations we realize that we want to make it so that a certain type of User — a host — has many listings and a certain…