One of the perks of working in a services-based startup is the possibility to work in a diverse range of domains, learn about new tools & technologies, and collaborate with different teams. This may sound daunting to some, but I’m in a different set – excited to experiment and learn more.

As someone who works primarily with PHP, and its frameworks – WordPress and Laravel, I was thrilled when I got into a project that was heavy on JavaScript. I had previously worked on a React Native mobile app and I find myself pretty comfortable with the concepts of component model and state management. With that, there were also a few catches:

1. It had been some time since I last touched React, almost six months.
2. Though I had worked with React Native (React for mobile apps) on multiple projects, my experience with using React for web apps was limited, if not nil! ????
3. Finally, I realized that a framework called Gatsby had been chosen to move forward with the frontend development.

The first two points were enough to get me started, the third one just adding a more challenge.