React Roadmap

Key Note/Summary of "Chai aur React" series by Hitesh Choudhary

Why learn React?

  • Hype, Job, Trend, Build UI

  • Makes easy to manage & build complex front-end

When should I learn React?

  • After mastering JS (recommendation Chai aur JavaScript)

  • Most projects don't need to react in the initial place.

Why react was created?

  • Ghost (or Phantom) message Problem

  • State (fancy name for variable) -> JS (JS manage State)

  • UI -> DOM (DOM manage UI)

Don't learn react if:

  • You don't know how JS works OR DOM works (Refer: Watch my Browser inner working video)

React learning process:

  • Go in-depth

    • Babel, Fiber, Virtual DOM, Diff algo, Hydration
  • By making projects (one topic at a time)

    • Todo, Calculator, GitHub API,..

React is a library

  • Framework VS Library

Topics to learn

  • The core of React (state OR UI manipulation, JSX)

  • Component Reusability

  • Reusing of components (Props)

  • How to propagate change (hooks)

Additional add-on to React

  • Router (React doesn't have Router)

  • State management (React doesn't have state management)

    • Redux, Redux toolkit, Zustand, context API
  • Class based component

    • legacy code 🥹
  • BAAS Apps (Backend as a Service) - Firebase, Appwrite, Superbase

    • Social media clone, E-Commerce App,...

Helpful open-source "freeAPI.app" while learning react.

After React

  • React is not a complete solution in most case

    • No SEO, browser Render of JS, No Routing.

    • Framework (like NextJS, Gatsby, Remix)

Watch ReactJS Roadmap by Hitesh Choudhary

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