A stored token is not the same thing as a live session. This React app restored auth state by reading a token from localStorage, verifying it against the Rails API, and rebuilding the UI from that response.

The harder part of a search UI is not rendering results. It is keeping search terms, filters, pagination, and list updates from drifting out of sync. This React app used Redux thunks to keep those pieces moving together.

A fixed form is straightforward. A UI that lets people edit unknown key-value pairs is not. This React app sat on top of a schema-flexible Rails API, and the hard part was managing state while the shape of the data kept changing.