How to Find & Hire Top React Developers?

Published: May 2, 2022

12 min read

💻 Top Places to Look For React Developers?

One of the most favourite guides of our readers - yeah, that well-known about finding your superhero iOS developer - is full of helpful tips to save your time on hiring the best employee for your company. Actually, hints from that article are quite universal and they can easily relate to Android or React Native developers, too, if you just apply some small specifications.

Finally, Google can guide you to digital agencies’ websites, like ours. For example, you can simply put it like “build a hotel app in react”, follow the links to pages of mobile agencies and hire a specific member to extend your team or even outsource the complete development to them.

So these were the most common ways to find React developers for your project. Yet, that’s not all you should know - the hiring process is ahead!

🤝 How to Hire React Developers: a Step-by-Step Screening Instruction

Step 1: Make a Research (Portfolio + Experience) 📑

What is the typical workflow of our Stormotion HR team when screening a new candidate? Ahead of everything, they start the candidate research from looking at these 2 things:

  • His portfolio. Which projects he has previously worked on? What was his role? Were these React projects? What do his coworkers and team leaders say about him (if there are any testimonials)?
  • His expertise. What part of his experience may be used specifically in your project? Has he worked on similar apps? Has he implemented technologies and features that you need in your application? What is his experience with React? Whether he worked in a startup or big company?

These questions shed some light on the background of your potential team-player: whether they’re great teammates, have enough experience with necessary technologies and generally fit your Scrum or Kanban process framework.

During the interview Alex, Stormotion’s Co-Founder a.k.a. CTO and the main (but not only!) React Native Jedi in our team checks the level of experience with the React framework.

This part of the interview in your company should also be held by someone who has an understanding of how React works.

Here are examples of a few questions/tasks that we may put during our interviews, but feel free to reuse them for your needs:

  1. How do you understand pure functional Components?
  2. How are keys used in React?
  3. How are refs used in React?
  4. What are the features that differ React Router from other more traditional JavaScript routers (for example, Backbone’s Router)?
  5. Compare the various React Component lifecycle methods. How can it help you in building certain interfaces/features?
  6. How are HOCs (Higher Order Components) are created in React?
  7. Describe the Virtual DOM and explain how React renders it to the DOM.
  8. Describe the standard JavaScript toolchain, JSX, transpilation (via any compiler) and explain the significance of these items in development.
  9. How would you cause a component to render only when its ID changes?
  10. Explain how React requires certain Props to exist and how it restricts or handles Props to certain types.
  11. Compare forceUpdate() and setState(): for what they’re used; in which case you will use one and in which — another.
  12. What does StyleSheet.create do?
  13. List some core components of React Native.
  14. What is the principle of native modules in React Native?
  15. What are differences between React Native and React (web development in general) in styling and layouting?

If you aren’t sure about the correct answers, you may contact our Stormotion team!

👨‍💻 The Perfect Partner: Who Is He?

We truly believe that the partnership with a Digital agency (for example, Stormotion) is often the best choice to do. Judge for yourself.

If you plan to run a long-term project, the MVP stage of which will be followed by the Pre-Seed, Seed A and other funding rounds, you need a partner who is reliable, trustworthy, responsible and focused specifically on your project.

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