Before starting React, I think you should ...

React is a front-end JavaScript library. So you probably want to know the basics of JavaScript before diving into react, otherwise you will end up having a rough journey which isn’t good for your productivity. I wouldn’t advice you to fully rely on my article, I had a quite rough journey and after I finally understood React, I better document it for a future me. In this article, I’ll highlight the essentials and most important things to learn and provide a link to the resources as we gear up to creating your first React application. ...

June 9, 2024 · 2 min · Chris Achinga

Beginner React/Messenger Tutorials: 2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge

On September 10th, 2020, Facebook Developers announced the 2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge. The challenge was on creating tutorials for using any of Facebook’s open-source products. Submissions were really great and once again appreciating and stressing on the importance of developer communities. I have gone through the regional and global submission winners and I’d love to highlight all React-based tutorials for beginners. Here is the list: (No particular order was followed here :-) ) ...

January 2, 2021 · 2 min · Chris Achinga