Lesson: Refs and Memoization

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Lesson: Refs and Memoizaiton

Section: More React Concepts

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Lesson Overview

Learn about refs and memoization in React

Lesson Outline

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• Explore useRef hook and its use cases
• Explain memoization and how useCallback and useMemo can be used for that with examples

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• [ ] Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
• [ ] Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

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[fcasibu]

@01zulfi I'd like to work on this!