react-baby-steps

Introducing beginners to the world of React via coding.
The goal of this repo is to understand the basic concepts before you start using magic ~Flux libraries.

If you are looking for the ideas behind React, like VirtualDOM, you should start here:
https://blog.risingstack.com/the-react-way-getting-started-tutorial/

Chapters as releases:
https://github.com/RisingStack/react-baby-steps/releases

chapters

I recommend you to checkout each chapters step by step and see what's changed.
If you are hungry for detailed explanation, ping me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/slashdotpeter

1. Build system
2. Components
3. Component lifecycle
4. Immutable.js
5. Component's state
6. Mixins and LinkState
7. Higher order components
8. Context
9. Component testing
10. Flux basics with Rx
11. Redux

next

In the future I plan to add more chapters like data fetching, routing and complex data handling with Redux.

run

npm i
npm run dev

test

npm test