🦊 Get to Know React 🦊

⚛ Today’s topics

• Exercism review
• Intro to React
  • How does React work?
  • What does React code look like?

🛠️ Setup

Make sure you have the following set up in your local environment (docs listed below in Resources):

• Node & npm
• create-react-app
• ESLint for VS Code
• React developer tools for Chrome

📖 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

🔖 Resources

• Create React App Docs
• ESLint Plug-in for VS Code
• ESLint Docs: Getting Started You probably don’t need to get too deep into this right now, but if you want to know more about configuring ESLint, this is the place to go.
• How to Lint and Format Code with ESLint in VS Code This tutorial walks you through using ESLint in a more comprehensive way.
• React Dev Tools Extension Chrome