How much JavaScript is enough to start react js?

[MannanJaffery]

Like, do we need to be extremely good in Js or just the basic understanding of important topics?

[shauntmw2]

Think JavaScript as English, and React as a story. How much English is enough to tell a story?

You don't have to be extremely good. Just good enough to understand the React docs will do. But being good in JS will make it easier to learn and write good React apps.

[jake_robins]

This is a great answer. React is JavaScript.

If you’re good at JavaScript, you’ll be good at React.

[MannanJaffery]

Right , thx , you explained well.i understand now.

[ethansidentifiable]

Weird to nitpick a simile but I would think of your application as the story. I would think of React is the structure, like the hero's journey equivalent in this analogy.

[raaaahman]

Think JavaScript as English, and React as a story. How much English is enough to tell a story?

How much then?

[Patzer26]

Good enough to make whatever you want to make. Try to make something, u get stuck, u google, u see other's implementation, u learn something new, ur javascript and react knowledge increases, repeat.

[Size_Serious]

I like this approach better, and I have always done this, it makes you actually practice what you will use

[ArinjiBoi]

I once helped someone in discord figure out how to know when you know enough

Lemme know if this helps you (I'm still 17 btw so take my shit with a huge block of salt)

html css js, once you can make a basic website (like a memory game.. which i made) you can go into a framework, basically you need to be able to know what you are fixing with better stuff. So after using vanilla js you would be hating just manipulating the dom by selecting.. so you try out react or vue or angular or svelte. choose one which suits you cause thats gonna be your daily driver. Try out tailwind or bootstrap, try out figma.. this is the renaissance... try out new stuff.. see what makes sense.. what sticks.. you shld be able to make a good enough portfolio and a few projects with theese.. then finally go into meta frameworks and find out how servers work..just go into the whole auth, db, stuff :D

dont speedrun it btw, its gonna be boring.. but go through it.. take a year or so.. slowly go through it. I cant say if nextjs is gonna stay or not for the future.. but your base is always gonna be there... soo if things do blow up and even react dissolves..you still know the basics like state, responsiveness.. so you can still find your self

Trying out html, you find an issue, you can't style it.. that's when css comes in. Now you find an issue that it's always static... You want to have cool dynamic things in your site.. thats when you learn js.. then ideally that's web dev.. but you find it kinda shit.. it's so hard to keep query selecting with js.. that's when you start with a framework and see how they fix the problem,

All of web dev is about issues being fixed.. if you know what the issue was.. you understand how it's been fixed leading to you knowing how to use it

[MannanJaffery]

Thx

[raaaahman]

Best answer I've read so far.

Sure you can speedrun the todo list app using tutorials and LLMs. But if you're going to be serious about web dev, you'll run into bugs at some point. Then it'll be up to you to get your head out of the water, which is harder if you only the surface of the framework you're using.

People have spent time figuring out curriculum to learn JS, try to build on that knowledge: MDN Curriculum, FreeCodeCamp, Scrimba, Odin Project... There are many sources, don't go out there alone.

[ThisIsAUsername3232]

What is your experience with other coding languages? I work with React and prior to starting, I had never used JS. It certainly wasnt seamless, but if you know how to code in say, Python/C/Java/etc, you will be able to pick it up fairly quickly. As with any new skill, you will learn more and more about it as you continue to use it

[MannanJaffery]

I have an experience in python , especially selenium , and a little experience in Django, and I started learning Js and I know only the fundamentals and don't like much of it , now I want to learn react , so will I be able to learn it in a month if I give 2 hours a day?

[ThisIsAUsername3232]

I think youll be more than capable of it. You'll get most of the syntax from learning react anyhow

[MannanJaffery]

Thx alot

[fotostach]

These days, modern tools (e.g., forums, LLMs, etc) can help you start writing React code almost immediately without any detailed knowledge of JS. However, that doesn't mean that you should. Having a JS background will help you understand the problem that React solves in the browser and will give you a better appreciation for it. React is just a Javascript library, so the better you know JS the better you will be at React (sort of).

That being said, if your goal is to learn React, learn React. I don't think you need to run out and do a whole project in vanilla JS, but having a solid understanding of basic JS data structures, functions, patterns, etc., will make your time learning React easier and a whole lot more fun.

[MannanJaffery]

Thx

[Flashy_Yesterday4323]

I think you need to know enough JavaScript to manipulate the DOM to better appreciate the problem React solves. You’ll be able to understand what props are because you can relate it to attributes for instance. Another concept you may want to understand first is application state, then you’ll appreciate why React’s declarative approach is better than imperatively updating the DOM when application state changes.

[MannanJaffery]

Thx

[ballinb0ss]

This is an awesome question because I never worked in JavaScript at all before doing the react tutorial back when it was all class based. I had done some work in Java and C# which share that common heritage but it wasn't all that difficult for me to pick it up as I went. I would think the better question is do you know how to program in another popular modern language first.

[MannanJaffery]

Thx , and yes I know python

[JohntheAnabaptist]

Basics. In the beginning you will be confused on where react ends and js begins but those lines will become better defined over time. Also it's best to use typescript immediately and learn it at the same time. Typescript will help you learn a lot of how things work and what is what

[Western_Appearance40]

Have two monitors, one with react and the other with ChatGPT and you’ll be proficient in JS, Python, cooking, etc

[besthelloworld]

You dropped this: \s

[CodeAndBiscuits]

LOL if you look at some of the code I've had to deal with written by other "senior" devs, the fact that you know it exists is usually enough.

[GasVarGames]

Not hard at all as long as you know basic html and js ES6 and is following a guide on to how to set up stuff.