Ask HN: Someone here to team up with me on a project to learn React together?

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by alinalex • 10 years ago

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Hey there,

I'm a self-taught web developer and I want to learn React right now. Is here anybody who would like to team up with me on a project in order to get learning react together?

Thanks, Alin R.

ck_one• 10 years ago

Sounds like a good idea! Do you have a specific project in mind?

(EE Junior from Germany with basic rails and flask experience)

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Hi! You can find me on twitter @RautaAlin and we'll talk there and make a plan. What do you say?

judahmeek4• 10 years ago

I strongly recommend starting with http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...

mos_basik• 10 years ago

Thank you, I've been reading through the docs and some blogs to try and get my feet wet, but most are very tight-focused. A full-stack read is very welcome.

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Thanks for recommendation, the tutorial looks impressive and overwhelming in the same as I'm just a beginner with React.

judahmeek4• 10 years ago

The tutorial is a little overwhelming, but you just take one step at a time and google any concept that you don't understand. One of the best aspects of this tutorial is that it relies on tests, which means that you gain a greater practical understanding of the functionality that you are implementing.

sjroot• 10 years ago

I'm down!

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Find me on twitter @RautaAlin and we'll talk more :)

chaudhary27• 10 years ago

I am down to learn react.

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Please give your email address here or on twitter @RautaAlin and I will send you an invite to the slack group I just made for this learning activity

mjohns3n• 10 years ago

could you add me as well? mattjohnsen@protonmail.com

pault• 10 years ago

I've been using react in my freelance work for a year or so. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. My email is in my profile.

alinalex21• 10 years ago

I emailed you an invitation at parkerault @ gmail . com. Is that email correct?

simple_life3• 10 years ago

I did a course on React from udemy by Stephen Girder. It's pretty good. There are three courses React, Advanced React and React Native. I think this course will save you ton loads of time. Also, it's quite cheap at 30 $ for three courses and 60 hours of content.

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Thanks a lot for the resources you recommended! Wanna join the learn react slack group to make some project with us? Please give me your email and I will send an invitation :)

simple_life3• 10 years ago

Sure. Would love to. siddharth[dot]soka+hn[at]gmail[dot]com

dstaten• 10 years ago

I second this -- they're fantastic courses

wje• 10 years ago

Sounds fun! I'm down to learn with you.

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Give me your email address or contact me on twitter @RautaAlin to invite you on the slack group I just made.

aakashsigdel• 10 years ago

I am a react-native developer. I too want to get my feet in web development. I am good with concepts of react and redux. But not good on web development. I would love to learn react together as we can teach each other things from our domain. Email me at aakash dot sigdel at gmail dot com.

FullMtlAlcoholc• 10 years ago

I'm currently working on my first React side project as we speak. Give me a holler. Email in profile :)

alinalex21• 10 years ago

I can't figure out your email from the profile, sorry :)). Please write it here or contact me on twitter @RautaAlin and I will send you an invite to the slack group

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Wow, guys you are so awesome. I did not expect this kind of positive answer. I'm making now a slack group, so we can learn together and I will send you invitations. Please contact me on twitter @RautaAlin to give your emails and start sending the invitations.

acemarke3• 10 years ago

FYI, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem.

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Thanks a lot acemarke! I appreciate it! Wanna join the slack group on learning react together? :)

acemarke3• 10 years ago

I spend most evenings (and weekends) hanging out in the Reactiflux community on Discord. That generally keeps my attention for the most part, as well as trying to work on updates to the Redux docs, and my blog post series on "Practical Redux".

You might actually want to consider Reactiflux as an option instead of a Slack group. Granted, a Slack group would work well for a smaller, goal-focused group, whereas Reactiflux is more of a general "discuss anything related to React and related tools" set of channels. That said, it'd definitely be possible for us to add a channel dedicated to this learning effort, and there's always plenty of people hanging around who can answer questions.

No problem either way, just wanted to toss out that as an option.

FYI, the Reactiflux invite link is available to anyone at http://www.reaactiflux.com . And, if anyone's interested, my "Practical Redux" blog series can be found in my blog at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com .

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Hey everyone! Thanks for all your answers and support and I will call it a night for now. If you want to be part of our spontaneous slack group for learning react, just shoot me an email at alin.rauta@thebusinessclub.ro and I will send you an invite.

Best,

ecesena2• 10 years ago

Great idea! Please keep us posted on how it goes, I'd like to hear and maybe do something similar when my schedule will permit. Do you already have a project? If not, with a partner or alone, I can propose you to restyle/update and keep open source Has Gluten [1].

I started working on HG two years ago, open sourced the code [2], but never really had the time to give it the love it needs (updating to a newer version of React, make the code nicer, blog about it...).

If you'd like to give it a boost, I'm happy to leave it as a playground and support where needed -- assuming the core functionality will still be there. We've had already a good number of friends from all over the world contributing with UI improvements and translations.

Incidentally this is how I learned React, and in fact this is not much more than React tutorial (searchable list) with a slightly better UI, and backed by a google spreadsheet. I also integrated ads sense, with the idea to pay back the $12/y of the domain, but I think there's some issue loading. Overall I think a project like this could teach you quite a good number of reusable skills.

[1] http://hasgluten.com

[2] https://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Hey! I think it would be better to give me your email address and join us on slack and we will talk there more on every subject you want. What do you say? :)

ecesena2• 10 years ago

Oh sorry, just read it now - my email is public in my profile, forgot to mention :)

rckclmbr• 10 years ago

I've been wanting to migrate pyportify from angular to react. It would be a great project for learning react, if someone wants to do it.

https://github.com/rckclmbr/pyportify

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Give me your email address and join us on slack and I guess you can find someone interested in that project

songzme• 10 years ago

Hi, I got together a few friends to build a language learning site. There are 5 of us: 2 of us have 5+ years industry experience, 3 of them just started college and are hungry to learn. The experienced devs will spend most of their time code reviewing and making sure everybody checks in good code.

We built our product (not launched yet) in React and its primary purpose is to help us learn redux (which explains why we haven't launched it). So far we've had about 3 code rewrites, the most recent being refactoring codebase to use Redux (all of us love it).

We have weekly sprint meetings every Thursday to talk about the project assign tasks and review the team's progress. We have had about 15 sprint meetings.

If anybody wants to join us, we would love to teach you what we learned and assign you a few tasks. My email is song at zheng.club

alinalex21• 10 years ago

I sent you an invite to the slack group.

fatpixel• 10 years ago

This is exactly what I am looking for! If there's still room on the team, I'd love to join!

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Please tell me your email address and I will send you an invite right away

motu2• 10 years ago

I'm down

alinalex21• 10 years ago

Please give me your email address and I will send you an invite

motu2• 10 years ago

motu@fastmail

.com

saikumarr• 10 years ago

Hi Alin,

I have been hacking with React for sometime now. I am struggling to get better. Can I join you for learning React better My mail id : kumar[dot]sai119[at]gmail[dot]com

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