When I began designing my web application, the first thing that I decided on was the desire to have cat photos front and center for anyone who uses the web application. Not only did I want a cat image, I wanted a variety of random cat images.

I chose to focus on my blog for this section on useEffect, as I felt it was a hook that could be particularly useful for future work in React and therefore wanted to reinforce some of the general principles behind using this hook beyond the use in my Phase 2 project.