Gotta make this quick! Yesterday was all about finishing up our Pokedex project, with a slight twist. We had to take what we had built the day before, and apply the React Routes concept we learned from the day prior. If you need a comparison, React Routes is very much akin to setting up routes via Rails in routes.rb. It was a very interesting concept, and also served to confuse me just a bit more.

I was just getting used understanding what state, props and store contained at any given point, but the introduction of Routes and being able to pass parameters and data through Routes kind of made it a little bit more complicated. Not all THAT much more, but in the spur of learning new things and on the cusp of grasping the concept, the introduction of new concepts that slightly confused what I already learned is simply one step back. I’ll definitely get two steps forward, that’s for sure.

I learned a new way of thinking yesterday too! I was struggling yesterday with CSS and designing our Pokedex. I was having trouble mostly with moving elements around. A roommate recommended that I think about the element in the context of the container/parent, and really understand the relationship between parent and child elements.

That’s pretty much it for now! Talk to you guys tomorrow!