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Re: Learn React by building a web app

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Too late, http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

The left column of that site only confirms (for me) how much friendlier Jquery is and that I don't want to give it up.

The site only goes to IE10 though.

The first three examples, which are probably the worst, improve greatly in more modern browsers that include the fetch() API.

In my view even the jQuery examples look a lot better if you can write ES6.

Re: Learn React by building a web app

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Too late, http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

The first time I saw that site, I assumed it was a joke. Seems more to me like it's trying to tell people how nice jQuery is. Who would look at that and walk away with the opinion that jQuery is unnecessary?

I think it is unopinionated. I like it very much because it teaches how to do things in plain javascript.

Re: Learn React by building a web app

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That's why I am going to wait till next year to start learning JQuery. Should be stable and mature by then.

Too late, http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

Maybe the next step is a utility that "recompiles" or "statically links" jQuery JS into plain JS?

Re: Learn React by building a web app

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Too late, http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

The first time I saw that site, I assumed it was a joke. Seems more to me like it's trying to tell people how nice jQuery is. Who would look at that and walk away with the opinion that jQuery is unnecessary?

The idea is that if you're building your own Javascript library, you can avoid the huge dependency of jQuery.

If you're developing a user-facing app, then yeah, jQuery is still pretty darn helpful.

Re: Learn React by building a web app

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Hey this is awesome. I had no idea what React is. And i was overwhelmed with the volume i had to learn for these many years, for which i delayed. When I saw this tutorial is around 2 hours, I decided to give a try. I am around part-8. I am very much impressed the way it is structured and presented.

1. I would like to know, if there are any such "free" tutorials related to web development, which are short and in-depth, and covers a breadth and depth of knowledge.

2. Are there any live coding walk-through tutorials of real world projects/examples, that helps you get complete understanding of development process?

By watching professionals in action, we can learn a lot from them, such as best practices, thought process, handling issues and problems and much more.

Re: Learn React by building a web app

#77
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The left column of that site only confirms (for me) how much friendlier Jquery is and that I don't want to give it up.

The site only goes to IE10 though. The first three examples, which are probably the worst, improve greatly in more modern browsers that include the fetch() API. In my view even the jQuery examples look a lot better if you can write ES6.

The first example is not really apples to apples as it doesn't even have error handling which makes the native function look longer. Probably because getJson doesnt support errors by default and you have to use promises http://api.jquery.com/jquery.getjson/

I ran into this issue of jquery silently failing a while ago and will always remember that pain point

Re: Learn React by building a web app

#78
Hey this is awesome. I had no idea what React is. And i was overwhelmed with the volume i had to learn for these many years, for which i delayed. When I saw this tutorial is around 2 hours, I decided to give a try. I am around part-8. I am very much impressed the way it is structured and presented. 1. I would like to know, if there are any such "free" tutorials related to web development, which are short and in-depth, and covers a breadth and depth of knowledge.

2. Are there any live coding walk-through tutorials of real world projects/examples, that helps you get complete understanding of development process?

By watching professionals in action, we can learn a lot from them, such as best practices, thought process, handling issues and problems and much more.

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