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Johnny Navarro

Well, React is moving from class-based components to functional components, any resource you might find using classes is probably outdated, you are encouraged to work with functional components and the React "hooks".
Now, regarding a resource for the basics, might sound kinda stupid but my first interaction with React was watching a "Crash Course" in Youtube. Traversy Media has one I found useful to understand everything first (youtu.be/XuFDcZABiDQ). On the other hand, if you are looking for an actual entire course, I would recommend Colt Steele's or Maximilian Schwarzmüller's React courses on Udemy, both are great. Good luck!

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Chloe

Thanks for the reply. Good to know functional components are the way to go it makes more sense to me. I should have thought of Traversy Media (fyi your link seems to a different video and not the crash course) I've watched his Vue crash course and have taken one of his JS courses.

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Johnny Navarro

Oh yeah, I didn't link the actual crash course because I believe he used class-based components there. The other one I linked does use functional components and hooks.

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Louis

for a quick entry I can recommend either FullStackOpen's section on React or The Beginner's Guide to React by Kent C. Dodds on egghead.io :)