Albert Einstein said that if you can't explain a concept in 5 year old you don’t know it well enough, and I couldn’t agree more with it, more simply you can explain something the more you know it deeply, and whenever I have to solve a frontend problem, the first thing I do is to think about the what is to be done in most simple terms which make thing easy and more effective with better coding solutions, I wanna share this mental model with you all and I am going to tell you my approach to the frontend of a social media app.
So we want to make social media app, gotta start with big things and then move to small parts, so we want pages a Login page, signup page, home/feed page, and profile page, and draw these on paper and define components on each page
Something like this. Today We are going to the Home page in detail, By making this visual blueprint you have a clear idea of what are we going to build, starting with making a basic UI for the page, after that as we have already defined different components with their utility, think about the data required by each component like for this case we need users data, all posts, current user and finally think about the state modeling of that data for which you can use various methods according to the use case, but now you have a very simple yet vivid idea about your project.