Microservices In Practice: Developing Instagram Clone —Frontend Service

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This is part 9 of Developing Instagram Clone series, other parts are linked below

1. Developing Instagram Clone: Introduction.
2. Developing Instagram Clone: Discovery Service.
3. Developing Instagram Clone: Auth Service
4. Developing Instagram Clone: Media Service.
5. Developing Instagram Clone: Post Service.
6. Developing Instagram Clone: Graph Service.
7. Developing Instagram Clone: Newsfeed Service.
8. Developing Instagram Clone: Gateway Service.
9. Developing Instagram Clone: Front-end Service

Disclaimer: I’m a backend developer who learned the front-end for prototyping. So, the code is not well structured and I recommend you follow a better structure, but you’ll get a general understanding of how the front-end service interacts with the back-end services in Microservices architecture.

Prerequisites

I assume a basic understanding of ReactJS and React Router.

If you can answer the following questions, then you are good to go:

1. What is react component ?
2. What is component states and…