A practical architecture walkthrough of a React SPA using Lunar Phase as the example: clear layer boundaries, data flow, and production-ready implementation details.
💻Languages TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby
🧠Frameworks & Libraries
- UI Frameworks: React, Angular, React Router, Nextjs, Ruby on Rails, Django
- Design Systems & UI Kits: Material-UI, TailwindCSS, USWDS
- State Management: Redux Toolkit, RTKQuery
- Testing: Vitest, Testing Library, Playwright
🛠️Tooling & Platforms
- Version Control & DevOps: Git, GitHub, Docker, Jenkins, AWS
- Build & Utilities: Vite, Webpack, OpenAPI, Postman
- Testing & Debugging: Storybook, React DevTools, ReduxDevTools
- Design & Collaboration: Figma, Miro, Slack, JIRA, Confluence
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Modern applications are increasingly data-driven, and dashboards have become the go-to interface for making that data useful and actionable. In this space, React stands out as the preferred choice—its component model, hooks, and ecosystem make it ideal for building interactive, scalable UI.
Lunar Phase is a small demo app in React that displays the current phase of the moon by fetching data from the Naval Observatory API. We can use it to demonstrate working in a UI with React.
- Single Page Application Layers & Architecture
- Benefits of a Custom Component Library
ColorfulLoader is a visually appealing and customizable React loading component designed for web applications. Packaged up in Node and already in Storybook, it can be a quick starter template for your component library.