React solution

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I think I am pretty happy with the solution I submitted and would use the same approach and same logic again if have to rebuilt it

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

The most challenging aspect of this application is devising the state management logic for the game. Once I grasped the concept that each cell could exist in one of three states - selected, normal, or matched - the remainder of the stateful logic fell into place rather easily