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Re: Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?

#11
I suspect part of the rub is that with react being only the 'V' in MVC, stand-alone tutorials leave you with only part of the picture.

And, of course, people are choosing different paths to fill in the rest of the stack. All of which pull your specific 'style' of using react in slightly different directions.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?

#13
post #11

I suspect part of the rub is that with react being only the 'V' in MVC, stand-alone tutorials leave you with only part of the picture. And, of course, people are choosing different paths to fill in the rest of the stack. All of which pull your specific 'style' of using react in slightly different directions.

I tried React about a year ago and this is how I felt. It was hard to understand how to incorporate React into an existing framework (Rails), because JSX was odd and I felt like I had to rewrite/rethink everything "V" related.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?

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Surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet! http://reactfordesigners.com/labs/reactjs-introduction-for-p...

Full of graphics and nice examples - it covers a lot of the reasons folks find react so fun to work with.

As a pro-tip: there is a lot of tooling, and things move quickly so a lot of examples on the web get outdated FAST. Don't be discouraged - it can be rough.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?

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Sorry for the self promotion, but I wrote a few React tutorials with someone like you in mind. They're only covering the basics of React, coding directly in an html file, so they don't involve getting up and running with Node+React. But I think that should be tackled after you know the basics of React. Building Your First React App: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/building-your-first-re... Building Your Second…

I remember doing that Egghead course over 2 years ago. Are they still valid?
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