Part 1.3 — Managing State: useState, useEffect, and Data Flow
Every dynamic React app revolves around state — what the user sees, what changes, and when. In this post, you’ll master useState and useEffect, the twin pillars of reactivity.
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Part 1.2 — Understanding Components and Props in React
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Production backends thrive on predictable errors, structured validation, and consistent responses. In this post, you’ll learn how to build those foundations using NestJS pipes, filters, and interceptors.
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Part 3.3 — Prisma Queries, Relations & Best Practices
This post teaches you how to design efficient, relational Prisma queries while avoiding N+1 errors, modeling relations cleanly, and thinking like a PostgreSQL-first backend engineer.
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