Closing thoughts and learning paths

Lesson 6, closing thoughts and learning paths. So that's us all done and just did. You've made it through 10 challenging modules and absorbed a huge amount of new concepts and knowledge around React and React development. Firstly, I want to give you a huge and heartfelt thanks for choosing my course and sticking with the learning journey. I hope by now that you've got a greater understanding of the React library and what it offers when it comes to modern modular front-end development. You should give yourself the biggest of paths on the back for working through the modules in the course and building out each of the projects to cement that learning and knowledge. I hope that you can take your newfound skills and build your own apps and projects whether you're moving onto a blossoming freelance career or you're looking to land your first development role are simply up-scaling a role that you're already doing. However, I do come across students who reach a point in their learning like this where they've finished a large course or other study material and wonder where should I go from here. I have some good suggestions on things you can do with your newfound React knowledge. First and foremost, get out there and build your own apps using React. Nothing will push your learning to the next level like taking off the training wheels and building your own apps for your own unique purposes. When you have to solve your own coding challenges, that's when the exciting growth really happens. You can supplement your front-end framework skills by adding in some backend bolt-ons. You could look at creating a GraphQL server that powers a React front-end. I'd recommend the popular Apollo library for this as it's supremely well- documented. Or investigate in MongoDB, a document-storied solution to persist your users' changes. You can collaborate with other developers. This might be a local group meet-up or even contributing to some open-source projects. You'll understand much more about the code you're working on when it comes to React. Perhaps you can enhance your React skills by learning more about animations using a library such as React Spring, adding next-level farms using Farmic, and you might even look at creating expressive URLs using a CSS framework such as Tailwind. And finally, how about moving on to using a framework on top of a framework? Popular React-based frameworks such as Gatsby on Next.js offer excellent support for building static jump-stack sites and are definitely worth looking at now that you've got a great grounding in React itself. Once again, I'm going to offer you a massive, genuine thanks for studying React with me. I hope you've enjoyed working through the course as much as I've enjoyed writing and recording it. I wish you all the best in your front-end and React endeavors and remember that this is just the beginning of your journey. The key to developer growth is to stay curious and keep learning. You can find me and my fellow new line-authors in the Discord server and I look forward to hearing from you there. [BLANK_AUDIO]