Week_1_Day_1: Development Environment

Learning React - Week 1

Today  I am starting a 30-minute challenge. I will commit 30 minutes a day to learning React via the React for Beginners Course written by Wes Bos.

Side Note: This is by far one of the best courses I have ever taken. Go and get it. Now.

Day 1: Development Environment

Setting up my development environment & going through the starter files.

This included:

• Ensuring my node version is up to date.
• That I have a ES6 syntax highlighter set up for my text editor (language-babel for atom).
• Installing the React Developer Tools extension into Chrome.
• Forking the starter file github project.
• Introduction to 'create-react-app'.

We also went through an introduction to React Components and how the Props, State, & Context relate to these components.

[Video 1: Introduction, Tooling & Editor Setup & 2: Thinking and Understanding React Components]