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Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by adakkak » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:11 AM UTC

hi, I am wondering if the website is built on top of existing elearning systems.

thanks

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by idibidiart » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:15 AM UTC

When you're ready for it, improve your React game with GraphQL/Relay! :)

https://gist.github.com/idibidiart/49a095b6bc528638f34f

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by yexponential » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:31 AM UTC

Serious question, and sorry(?) for bringing this up. But is everyone here really okay with reacts licencing?

Apart from stubbornly refusing to accept embedding html in js directly is a good idea (although I see the pros), licencing is the main reason I avoid this ecosystem altogether. Even though it has an outstanding community.

perhaps I'm making a deal out of nothing.

In any case will definitely take the course, im sure it will be as excellent as the others. Many thanks for your efforts Tyler.

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by halayli » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:42 AM UTC

tm33 wrote: post #57

halayli wrote: post #16

Thanks Tyler! It might be helpful to also add redux + async to it.

Check out the other courses. I think they're what you're looking for :)

Thanks! I wasn't aware of them :)

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by Kinnard » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 1:48 AM UTC

eecks wrote: post #30

Really can't decide to go ahead with an Angular approach (2.0) or use React. I know React is only for the view layer so what are people using with React to do stuff like api calls?

Had the same problem. Now diving into learning react.

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by polishninja » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 2:10 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #35

"Why should I use React?" Read this: http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p... If this article does not convince you, React is not for you and that's OK.

For what it's worth, all the JSBins with the react code don't work. I'm using Chrome. I keep getting Uncaught ReferenceError: ReactDOM is not defined.

I fiddled with it a bit but I couldn't get any of the examples working.

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by sergiotapia » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 2:14 AM UTC

polishninja wrote: post #76

sergiotapia wrote: post #35

"Why should I use React?" Read this: http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p... If this article does not convince you, React is not for you and that's OK.

For what it's worth, all the JSBins with the react code don't work. I'm using Chrome. I keep getting Uncaught ReferenceError: ReactDOM is not defined. I fiddled with it a bit but I couldn't get any of the examples working.

That's unfortunate that article was my go to on why React, it's the reason I decided to use it. I'll try to reach out to the other.

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by gmjosack » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 2:29 AM UTC

noobie wrote: post #12

Honest noob question, what's with all the hype about React? Edit: Awesome replies, thank you!

At first I was really turned off by JSX. HTML in your JavaScript? Yuck! Then I migrated a 12k lines JS + 4k lines Angular templates to TypeScript. I didn't get any of the benefit of static typing in all of those html files. That was really upsetting to me. Getting compile time static safety on JSX components is awesome.

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by SiVal » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 2:38 AM UTC

yexponential wrote: post #73

Serious question, and sorry(?) for bringing this up. But is everyone here really okay with reacts licencing? Apart from stubbornly refusing to accept embedding html in js directly is a good idea (although I see the pros), licencing is the main reason I avoid this ecosystem altogether. Even though it has an outstanding community. perhaps I'm making a deal out of nothing. In any case will definitely take the course, im…

What specifically about the licensing? This is an actual question, not advocacy. IIRC, Facebook had a provision that disallowed use of React for a ridiculously broad range of offenses with respect to any of FBs intellectual property but that they narrowed it considerably last year to a more reasonable: you aren't allowed to use any of our intellectual property in React if you dispute our ownership of that specific property.

I could be characterizing this incorrectly, or you could be referring to something I'm not aware of, so what specifically are you objecting to?

Re: Free React.js Fundamentals Course

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Post by Dr_tldr » Wed, Mar 02, 2016, 2:43 AM UTC

yexponential wrote: post #73

Serious question, and sorry(?) for bringing this up. But is everyone here really okay with reacts licencing? Apart from stubbornly refusing to accept embedding html in js directly is a good idea (although I see the pros), licencing is the main reason I avoid this ecosystem altogether. Even though it has an outstanding community. perhaps I'm making a deal out of nothing. In any case will definitely take the course, im…

I don't know how much the course goes into this, but it might help you get started to keep in mind that it's not HTML in JS, it's xml-like JSX syntax as syntactic sugar for regular JS function calls.

It's no more "embedded HTML" than something like $("

").text("lolwut").appendTo("body"), just written with a different syntax. Good luck!