I have a love hate relationship with my propensity to volunteer to do things before I might be 100% (or even 50%) ready. On the one hand I love a challenge and the learning that it forces me to do. On the other hand I hate the stress and the ups and downs of impostor…

Unfortunately I feel a lot people looking to get into React get bogged down with all the buzz around Flux or Redux, server rendering, build tools etc… All of which are not actually part of React itself. I thought I’d write a short tutorial to teach you the basics. This is part 1 of 2…