How much JavaScript to learn before learning React?🤔
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✨ Firstly, you don’t need to learn all of JavaScript!
Stress on the keyword “all”. A very important thing is that if your aim is to become, say a frontend developer (a complete guide on it here), you don’t want to spend month after month on only JavaScript preparation.
Stress on the keyword “all”. A very important thing is that if your aim is to become, say a frontend developer (a complete guide on it here), you don’t want to spend month after month on only JavaScript preparation.
✨The ideal mix that worked is to learn “just enough” to move on to React. This absolutely does not mean that you have learned JavaScript. This only means that you don’t need to.
✨ JavaScript, like any programming language, can be vast, especially with all the tooling and ecosystem around it. Therefore, it is super important to get the core, fundamental understanding of JavaScript ready before you learn anything that involves JavaScript.
✨ The fastest way to learn and absorb React is to go through JavaScript, and not directly jump on React.
The reason for this is context switching. When you learn React, you will parallelly learn a lot of JavaScript too, all the time.
The reason for this is context switching. When you learn React, you will parallelly learn a lot of JavaScript too, all the time.
✨ If you come with a solid understanding of JavaScript to React, you will spend a lot of time in React methodologies and how to work inside a React codebase, best practices, and libraries to choose from.
✨ This is only possible if you aren’t asking every minor detail about JavaScript syntax/code. If you do too much context switching from React to JavaScript learning, you’ll eventually make less progress on both ends.
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