🦊 Front-end: Get to Know React 🦊

Topics

• Return to JS!
• Intro to React
  • Why does React exist? What problem does it solve?
  • How is it different from vanilla JS?

🛠️ Setup

Make sure you have the following set up in your local environment:

• Node & npm
• create-react-app
• VS Code extension for JSX and Standard.js

📖 Read | 📺 Watch | 🎧 Listen

• React docs
• Kent C. Dodds, The Introduction to React You’ve Been Missing

🎯 Do

Beginner’s Guide to React Tutorial. This will show you the most modern way to build React apps. This project will be in Git, but you will use a repository you make.

If you finish this and want to keep going, try one of these other tutorials:

• The Beginner’s Guide to React - video-driven, very complete
• The official React tutorial - classic, official. Uses class-based components, which are a bit older, but still widely used
• Dave Ceddia’s React tutorial - very long, very comprehensive

🦉 Code from class

• The most minimalist React app ever