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How did I learn React in 3 days?

My experience with learning React by watching a long 12-hour tutorial.

June 26, 2022

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What is React?

React is a Frontend Framework for building component-based applications.

In market, a skill such as React is really appreciated. Lots of services use React on the front and, to be honest, their products look awesome. That's when I decided to learn react.


How did you start?

At the beginning it was really tough. I went to the official docs, went through the tutorial, but didn't understand the structure of this library, didn't really like it. That was 4-5 months ago.

Last week, scrolling through YouTube, I noticed a 12-hour Scrimba tutorial hosted by FreeCodeCamp. Somehow, I got a strong drive to pass the course.

First 2 hours were really easy, but then I had to switch to Scrimba's original website where the screencast-based course was hosted.

The teaching method was marvelous, the course offered a built-in text-editor with autocompletion, challenges and quizzes.

After 2 days I finished the course, completing 140+ challenges and 10-ish projects on my learning folder.

So, you definitely have to check this course!

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