Hello everyone, I am back again to dev.to after almost a month. I have been giving interviews and after almost 45 interviews I realized that Node.js and Express.js and their projects on my resume won't let me land at a job.
So I want to start learning React
Though there are many things that come with it, and I'm unsure of the order in which I should proceed.
- React DOM,
- RxJS,
- Babel,
- Redux
and all the other things.
Also I will keep on creating my own ideas of web apps with it, but please suggest some OpenSource/Github projects that I should be looking forward to after learning it and have a grasp on the subject.
Also suggest on how to move towards React Native with it.
Please suggest/advice/guide some kinda pathways to learn this and be able to create commercial level web apps that really puts me in big league so that I can get a job and moreover I can solve more complex real life problems to put them on a website form to solve it
Current set of resources at my disposal
- Book - the Road to learn React
- Net Ninja's YouTube playlist
- Reactjs.org official documentation ( but I'm not sure how to start reading it, I have never read Node.js documentation that way )
You guys can see my current web apps live on heroku, I have posted all of them with my resume here in this twitter thread
Top comments (12)
Do you have solid understanding of "vanilla" javascript (I assume you have, as you mentioned node and express)? React itself is not that hard to start with, if you are somehow proficient with javascript. I recommend official React documentation (I think this is an awesome tutorial to start with). Drop RxJS for now, as it's not really needed to understand React. If you have few bucks to spend, I recommend Stephen Grider's course on Udemy (there are few of them, start with the beginner's one, then eventually continue with more advanced ones if you want). Last thing, feel free to use
create-react-appfor now, skip webpack/babel/eslint configuration (it's unnecessary overhead for a beginner) and just dive into creating apps. Good luck with learning.ahh okay and that way I can showcase my webapps by committing code on Github. Do you think there are any other Open Source projects to learn along with. Thank you :)
Make sure to check out awesome-react, it has some great resources.
I also have a playlist on YouTube with React tutorials and talks if visuals and audio are more your thing 🎥 There are some great talks in there that discuss concepts you'll tackle in React.
Wow thank you so much for sharing your playlist, I do watch more videos and code, also read so much more but for starters only videos. I started working on it, since few days. Will show you the apps I will build.
yeah I love videos to start with, gives you way better context jumping into things like documentation or tutorials. Looking forward to seeing some of the apps! ⚡️🤘
Keep it simple! Don't worry about Redux, RxJS, or Babel at all yet. Focus on learning Javascript, and React by itself.
The "Getting Started" page in the React docs was just updated - you should start there.
Also, see my suggested resources for getting started with React, the list of resources in the Reddit /r/reactjs "Beginner's Questions" thread, and my React/Redux links list.
Thank you first of all, and yes I'm more worried about starting to contribute to open source/Github as soon as I learn it.
Hi Divyesh,
I started learning ReactJS for 1 month and my suggestion is to go through the tic-tac-toe tutorial from official ReactJs, then follow Kirupa's website. kirupa.com/react. After that, tackle the Advance topic Docs from official ReactJs and start Redux. Good luck.
Thank you for suggesting some hands on experience. I would have never known about kirupa.com if it weren't for you.
make your own react components library (navbar, tabs, forms, profile pages etc). I suggest Kirupa as someone else did
okay I'm yet to reach at that level but yeah I'm noting it down for near future.
Explaining 🐘React like I don't know anything
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