A visual guide to React Mental models
I’ve learned that the biggest difference between someone that has mastered a language, framework or tool and someone who hasn’t lies in the mental models they use. One person will have a clear and advanced one and the other will not.
By having a good mental model you can intuitively understand complex problems and device solutions much faster than if you had to find a solution with a step-by-step process.
Whether you’ve been working with React for years or are just starting, having a useful mental model is, in my opinion, the fastest way to feel confident working with it.
A mental model is how we imagine a system to work. We create one by understanding different parts of the system and its connections, and it’s important because it helps us make sense of the world and helps us solve problems.
A good example of a mental model is the internet: it’s a complex system with many interconnected parts, but think about the way you imagine it to work. I imagine it as many computers connected through many big servers, with many middlemen redirecting where each piece of information is stored.
