See , what I feel is maybe you need to go through better courses or maybe educative.io Or frontendmasters. They are really good to follow and will guide you through.
You can only be great in React is you are really really good in JavaScript.
Rick Delpo - retired Senior Data Engineer from GE now offering a helping hand to Java and SQL beginners. Recently I migrated to AWS Serverless Architecture and moved away from Java to Javascript
ok thanks, now I see the problem is that I am not that great with JS because I am mostly a backend developer. So perhaps Plain JS is more my speed. But I still have a hankering for React so will search for easier tutorials on the topic.
I feel the more familiar you get with JavaScript , it will make learning React easier for you. I taught myself web development on my own for the most part and I can say that I found react to be easy to understand as I had a better understanding of JS and also that I read through React Documentation and learn about details of component lifecycles etc and the rest follows.
The faster you familiarise yourself with reading Documentations , you will save yourself a lot of time and will improve your understanding of the library etc. I've adopted this habit and It's very very helpful.
Keep your JS fundamental strong and keep building on them gradually, Read MDN Documentation beyond just looking something up.
Rick Delpo - retired Senior Data Engineer from GE now offering a helping hand to Java and SQL beginners. Recently I migrated to AWS Serverless Architecture and moved away from Java to Javascript
Hey thanks John for ur response. I do agree that I can do it but now comes all the mega time to put in and the learning curve involved. Also I am a bit concerned about all the JS in React impacting my SEO.
See , what I feel is maybe you need to go through better courses or maybe educative.io Or frontendmasters. They are really good to follow and will guide you through.
You can only be great in React is you are really really good in JavaScript.
ok thanks, now I see the problem is that I am not that great with JS because I am mostly a backend developer. So perhaps Plain JS is more my speed. But I still have a hankering for React so will search for easier tutorials on the topic.
I feel the more familiar you get with JavaScript , it will make learning React easier for you. I taught myself web development on my own for the most part and I can say that I found react to be easy to understand as I had a better understanding of JS and also that I read through React Documentation and learn about details of component lifecycles etc and the rest follows.
The faster you familiarise yourself with reading Documentations , you will save yourself a lot of time and will improve your understanding of the library etc. I've adopted this habit and It's very very helpful.
Keep your JS fundamental strong and keep building on them gradually, Read MDN Documentation beyond just looking something up.
Embrace the ASYNCHRONOUS nature of JS.
You can do it.
Can't agree more.
Hey thanks John for ur response. I do agree that I can do it but now comes all the mega time to put in and the learning curve involved. Also I am a bit concerned about all the JS in React impacting my SEO.
That's a business decision and ofcourse there's SSR but my point was about learning something new.