Starting the Thinking in React Section: Building My usePopcorn App

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Overview

I just completed my self‑learning section 🎉 and I feel amazing to see how far I’ve come! Now it’s time to level up and dive into the Thinking in React section of my React course.

In this section, I’ll be focusing on:

• ✨ How to think about components
• ✨ Composition — combining smaller pieces into bigger ones
• ✨ Splitting components — making code clean and reusable
• ✨ Building layouts — creating flexible and maintainable UI

To put these concepts into practice, I’m building a small project called usePopcorn 🍿. It’s a fun movie app where I’ll experiment with components, state management, and layouts. I want to make it clean, reusable, and easy to manage — exactly what Thinking in React teaches.

I’m super excited because this section will help me write better React apps, faster and smarter. Every project I build teaches me something new, and usePopcorn will be a great way to apply everything I’ve learned so far.