Learning Path: Getting started with React

Not long ago I started learning React. I have more than 10 years of experience using JS and before React I was actively coding in first wave generation web frameworks (like knockoutJS) and starting to get a grasp on components architecture (but using KO components + web components). Today I am coding entirely in React (both at work and for personal projects) and it’s been great. I love the community, there are a lot of projects & learning resources and I also found React to be a fast way of creating web applications. 

In this post I want to share some resources that helped me learn React and I hope they are useful for anyone starting out there. 

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Weekly Digest #4: On React internals

This weekly digest focuses on React internals. Understanding how react works internally helps to follow best practices when coding, better understanding on performance and extra skills to debug those hard bugs. React defines that UI is a function of state: UI = f(s) . Every time the state changes react calculates the new UI (reconciliation) and renders the differences:

State Change


Read the following sources to understand better how the whole process works:

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