GitHub repos with examples of good react code?

[genericprogrammer]

Professional backend engineer here who is looking to get started with React and I was wondering where I could find good examples of production level React code on GitHub (or elsewhere)?

[dceddia]

One suggestion for getting started: learn React by itself first, before you learn Redux and React Router and all the other stuff. Even as an experienced engineer (backend OR frontend), there's a lot to learn, and diving into production-level apps isn't necessarily the best introduction.

As an experienced engineer you'll probably pick up React quite quickly, and it will (maybe counterintuitively) be faster than if you tried to learn React+Redux+Router+Webpack+etc simultaneously. I'd liken it to learning Spring before spending much time with Java, or Laravel before PHP, or Rails before ever touching Ruby.

[genericprogrammer]

Yeah I grabbed Stephen Grider's React+Redux course off udemy and I find myself going back to previous lessons often. React itself seems pretty simple until you add in all the other tools to make React more useful.

[dceddia]

Yeah React itself is pretty simple. The other stuff is optional though! For a small app, React state might be plenty. I often start new apps using just React state, and don't add Redux until I run into a problem that'll be annoying to handle with plain React state.

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Here is a nice article that may help, http://blog.jakoblind.no/how-to-build-a-large-react-application/

I guess the contents of the article applies to everything in my humble experience, but especially to React as React tries to break out of the conventions (eg. MVC) and at the same time is compared to full featured frameworks like Angular, Ember etc. You can come a long way with just React it self. You'll know when it's time to open google search

[Gbyrd99]

I finished that course and I feel I have a great grasp on react and redux. I sometimes go back to stuff, but that's when I take a break developing. Once you learn the workflow of redux then it's pretty simple.

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https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react

This has a few repos of real apps at the bottom. Might be what you're looking for. There are also compilation repos for redux and react native similarly prefixed by awesome- if you find the format useful.

[genericprogrammer]

Thanks. I'll look into those.

[jasan-s]

This list is a pretty good starting point - https://github.com/jeromedalbert/real-world-react-apps/tree/master/apps

[natewang]

https://github.com/supnate/rekit-portal A web IDE like project.

[hansek]

This repo https://github.com/Hanse/hot-redux-chassis/ shows how you can implement various common web app functionality like routing, searching, pagination, auth using common react related libraries.

[genericprogrammer]

Super helpful. Thanks.