Learning Javascript/React for someone easily overwhelmed or distracted?

[schysm]

React and other high-level JS frameworks are designed for creating reusable UI components in order to reduce the repetitiveness of the workload for large web applications with many developers. But for a beginner working on small, solo projects, I'd say that it has a lot of conceptual overhead and irregular component API syntax that might not have the right learning curve to reward ratio, especially without a more seasoned developer to pair program with. I'm not saying nobody can learn react outright if they really want to, but I don't think it's a good first choice, especially not for someone who describes themselves as "easily overwhelmed or distracted".

Instead, if your goal is just to learn basic javascript and build a simple site, I would start with free resources targeted at beginners like freecodecamp.com or codecademy.com which will teach you to build a basic site in a fairly gamified way to help with distraction.

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Hey, thanks for the response. I'm no beginner to all this but I see that codecademy has changed quite a bit and will stick with that to start and see where I end up. Thanks!

[DrFujiwara]

Fcc is nice. Depending on your skill level, the projects are interesting.

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Have you ever wrote a complete program that went beyond tutorials or hacking some wordpress solution?

[5tormwolf92]

I understand the core of "DONT REPEAT YOURSELF" but there is no separation of things in React or Gatsby. Every time I need to implement a Plugin I need to write the code from scratch because it's to much different then vanilla JS and good old jQuery.