A curated list of free resources to master React Development
Table Of Contents
- Motivation
- Essential Path
- Optional Path
- How To Use This Guide
- How To Colaborate
- Team
- Inspiration And Additional Resources
Motivation
This project aims to collect the best free resources for those that want to learn how to build applications with React and also understand the concepts that come with its adoption like Functional Programming, Composition, Unidirectional Data Flow and many others.
Essential Path
Why React?
React
- React Fundamentals
- Getting Started
- Getting Started with create-react-app
- React Docs Tutorial
- Thinking in React
- The React Quick Start Guide (ES6 version)
- Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome
- Learn Raw React — no JSX, no Flux, no ES6, no Webpack…
- Learn Raw React: Ridiculously Simple Forms
- Building a Router with Raw React
- React's Official Guides & Tips
- react-devtools
- React Cheat Sheet
Bundlers
Webpack
ES2015+
- Learn ES6 (ECMAScript 2015)
- Setting up ES6
- Overview of ECMAScript 6 features
- Exploring ES6
- Exploring ES2016 and ES2017
Routing
Redux
Build Stuff
- Several project ideas
- React - TodoMVC
- Bootstrapping a React project
- The SoundCloud Client in React + Redux
- A Primer on the React Ecosystem: 1, 2 and 3.
- Building a React/Redux App with JSON Web Token (JWT) Authentication
Optional Path
Typescript
How To Use This Guide
Use a linear approach to complete this guide. That means you should start with the first resource in the Essential Path and pass to the next one after you finish the previous and after make a practical project to internalize what you have learned.
The React's ecosystem is overwhelming for beginners. Ensure to learn each new tool isolatedly.
Said this, our first course in the React section covers all the React ecosystem. Face this as a general introduction to each topic that will be studied deeply in the following sections.
In the sections about React, Webpack, and ES2015+, the initial resources are more superficial and the last ones are going deeper in the respective topic. You can opt to learn the basics first and return to them later, but don't skip them without have a basic knowledge of the matter.
After you complete the Essential Path, you can choose one (or more) topics in the Optional Path. You do not need to go through this section in the same linear approach, you should choose new topics to learn based on your necessity and/or desire.
How To Colaborate
To suggest new sections or new resources, open one issue for each resource/section explaining why we should add/remove such item. After at least 5 people approve (
The reason to keep this way of collaboration is to ensure that our list of resources will be really concise, bringing only the best resources for those that want to master the topics listed here.
Team
- Roadmap creator: Eric Douglas
- Roadmap maintainer: Eric Douglas
- Contributors: contributors
Inspiration And Additional Resources
Inspiration
- You’re Missing the Point of React
- react-makes-you-sad
- react-howto
- Your Timeline for Learning React
- 5 Steps for Learning React Application Development
- Path to Learning React
Additional Resources