A Backend Engineer’s Guide to Understanding React and Next.js

I am not completely new to React. A couple of years ago I spent a few weeks struggling with frontend tools to create 49travel . I learnt a lot about tooling, especially Vercel, a little bit about React but I can hardly say I really understood it. Now it is part of my job, so I do want to understand it better. And what better way to understand it than by trying to write a blog post about it. A side…