Learning React - books and tutorials

Awesome 2 hours beginner's training on React



This is a link to his full 10 hours tutorial https://codewithmosh.com/p/mastering-react


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AbaV3nrw6E&list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGBuKtLgPR_zWYnrwv-JllpA this is a cool simple tutorial showing you the basics of React programming.

You can also go through the examples here https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/installation.html using Codepen.

I had a look at these 2 books: https://leanpub.com/the-road-to-learn-react and http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484212462 but I found the first is just a bunch of notes put quickly together without much explanation and conceptualization, the second on the opposite too complex and verbose and not straight to the point.

I am increasingly turning to videos to learn new "technologies", especially videos which show real-time coded examples accompanied by explanation - they are definitely more expressive than traditional static written information with code snippets.

Incidentally this site http://todomvc.com/ is quite cool, it showcases a huge collection of frameworks to implement the same application.... it's scary that there are so many products out there.... my impression is that IT is becoming more and more a titanic mess without standards.


https://lostechies.com/derekgreer/2017/05/25/hello-react-a-beginners-setup-tutorial/

I have gone through all the 13 steps to get a simple "hello world" application running.... and it still fails with error messages that nobody can possibly understand.
Then as suggested in the comment I do

npm install -g create-react-app
create-react-app my-app
cd my-app/
npm start

and it works..... but I do
ls -1 node_modules/ | wc -l
1009

1009 modules installed to run a HELLO WORLD application ?????

it's crazy that in 2018 the Planet relies on such unstable piggish and messy products to power the Web....
something is really wrong in IT...