Frontend System Design Essentials: Normalization Explained

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Most APIs return deeply nested data. And at first glance, it seems fine — until you try to update a user’s name in multiple places, or merge partial backend responses cleanly. That’s where normalization comes in.

In this video, I walk you through the idea of **normalized state in frontend development**: what it is, why it matters, and how to implement it in React and Redux.

This is the first episode in the Frontend System Design Essentials series — each video focuses on one core concept that helps you build scalable, maintainable UI architecture.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

Understand the difference between nested and normalized structures
Identify common pain points caused by deeply nested data
Normalize your frontend state to reduce duplication and improve consistency
Use Redux with selectors to make your UI cleaner and easier to manage

By the end, you’ll have a clear, practical understanding of normalization — and why it should be part of your system design toolbox.

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