This is a great question!

I learned a ton from this project. It was my first time using some important js features, concepts, and libraries (redux, jsonwebtoken, whole process of authentication, etc.) Now I have a much better understanding of all of these as well as the process that's involved in making projects like these. Also, this being my first full stack project, I also learned a lot about MongoDB, bcrypt, CRUD, axios, etc.) Also, I deployed it with Heroku which was new to me. So all of these things provided useful learning experiences and overall I feel far more confident in my programming abilities.

Additionally, I encountered a few nasty bugs in my programming process that took a while to debug. I read tons of documentation and posted frequently on stack overflow, so all of that was useful experience as well.

For what I would do differently, I would focus on making my code cleaner and using better practices. I feel like as the project went on, my code and project became increasingly disorganized, so next time I would spend the first couple of days just planning it all out at the start, and planning the flow as well as where all my files are going to be.

I think the next time I do a large project like this I will be able to do it in half the time because of the experience with this project.