Suggestions for learning JavaScript and React from scratch about ama

[coryhouse]

Hi Jesse - I admire your attitude! I can totally appreciate feeling lost in the React class. I often tell people that learning React requires a lot of up front knowledge in JavaScript - since React is so simple, most the concepts are actually JavaScript concepts. So if you were new to React, it's understandable that it was totally confusing.

The good news is, there are countless great free resources out there for learning JavaScript from scratch. And you can simply open up your browser's developer tools (hit F12 in Chrome) and start typing JavaScript in the console to see what it does. I also enjoy tools like jsFiddle and Codesandbox.

I know everyone learns differently, so it's important to figure out how you learn best. Me? I like to read a few blog posts and watch a few videos, then I like to take a working example and start fiddling with it.

Here's a great site for getting comfortable with JavaScript foundations. This site is a pretty quick read and once you're comfortable with what they cover there you're in pretty good shape.

After that, to learn React, there are countless course online (I have some React courses on Pluralsight too). But honestly, the React docs are excellent. If you read all of them and truly understand it, you'll be in good shape.

Hope that helps!

[KhalilMohammad]

javascript is sexy is another good resource

[JesseSmith3rd]

Hello Cory, and Khalil,

I appreciate the direction. I will check these sites out now. I appreciate this feels great talking about it.