Getting Started With React: The Fundamentals.

Peter Ayeni
The Startup
Published in
9 min readOct 2, 2020

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Background

React is one of the most popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces built at Facebook and then OpenSource. React as seen great adoption in the Frontend Community with so many tools and loads of resources to aid development and learning. I started out with React in 2018 while working on a side project and since then I have invested time and resources to continually learn and become a better React developer. I also use React on a daily basis at work, as a Frontend Engineer at Previsico.

The aim of this tutorial is to help you get started with React Fundamentals. And most importantly to share what I learnt from Epic React: (Confidently Ship Well-Architected Production Ready React Apps Like a Pro) which is one of the best resources out there to learn React.

This tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of HTML/CSS and JavaScript if you don’t checkout FreeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design.

Basic javascript-rendered Hello World

That’s all we need to do to get a Hello World website up and running on our browser. What makes JavaScript powerful is…

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Peter Ayeni
The Startup

Senior Frontend Engineer. I change the world by helping people get started in Tech and Social Entrepreneurship.