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📣 idk1

Best way to learn React for someone who's used to Rails?


Hi,

I want to learn React, however Googling 'learn react' gives me a billion results and I don't want to start on a subscribe to a tutorial site or buy a book if there's a better one out there.

I'm great with javascript, so do not need to pick that up, and have hacked around and forked a few React projects but never really known quite what's going on or where to start with them.

I was wondering what is the best way to learn it. I am best I think learning from videos, however books are also great too. I'm not so good with scrolling through tutorial websites.

Thanks very much!


  👤 acemarke Accepted Answer ✓
Hi, I'm the primary maintainer for Redux, and I've spent much of the last several years helping answer questions about React and Redux.

We've got a curated list of learning resources for JS, React, Redux, and TS over on the Reactiflux Discord website:

https://www.reactiflux.com/learning

Admittedly these aren't videos or books - they're generally some of the best articles we've seen. Hopefully this should still be useful!


👤 lioeters
The React documentation is a good place to start.

Getting started - https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html

Tutorial: Intro to React - https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html