No messy boilerplate projects, no dependencies, just vanilla React. There had to be an easier way, I thought - to pare it down to absolute essentials, and burn off the fog.
The sheer volume of stuff required just to say "Hello, World" was enough to make me want to run and hide. We had boilerplate projects, with mountains of files. When I started learning React, we didn't have Create React App. Plus, of course, you'd be able to reap all the expected benefits from mastering React - like power, flexibility, jobs… But you already know all about those. You could feel like your savvy, capable self again.īurnt away by the sunlight of comprehension. You could see React components when you look at designs for your project. You'd… just… get how all those extra libraries, tools, and techniques fit into the React world as a whole, and your needs in specific. Armed with your mental model, you'd be able to unravel the complexity. Free yourself from the hunt-and-pluck tutorial. Time to start a new project? No problem! You could sit right down and start from scratch, with confidence and momentum. A strong framework of understanding to hang all the little bits on. If you could wrap your hands and brain around the core of React, the technology, the mindset, itself…īecause you'd have a functional mental model to guide your hypotheses and trials. Of course, the very fact that you feel that this is your best hope for getting your project off the ground is… well… embarrassing to admit outloud.Īnd it's not your fault! If you could learn how React, at its core, actually works… Has anyone built a React app that does x, y and z?
So maybe, you think, you can find a tutorial that covers your exact use case. Conveniently hidden in The Fog, so you fall right in. When you go to apply your knowledge in the real world, you trip across massive holes in your knowledge and understanding. Those other tutorials promise that all this overwhelm will be worth it, because you'll learn how to "build a full React app from end to end!"īut the problem with this approach is that you learn very little about a whole lot of things. Plus, of course, ES6 itself, with its Promise and let, and its weird little syntactic sugar like => and … They've gotta mix it up with Webpack, Babel, Redux, React Router, Apollo, Next.js, Gatsby, SSR, Firebase, Docker… styled-components, emotion, or maybe Tailwind CSS.
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