Blog Post: Getting started with React Native

[orta]

Seeing as I'm picking up all this stuff myself ATM, I should start noting down my path so that others can follow easier.

Base concepts to learn:

• ES6
• React
  • Components
  • Rendering Model
  • State
  • Props
• Flexbox
• Jest
• Flow

Useful to grok:

• Babel
• Redux
• TypeScript / Typings

Resources:

• http://makeitopen.com
• https://Egghead.io
• https://github.com/jondot/ReactNativeKatas
• https://flexboxfroggy.com
• https://reactnative.cc
• https://twitter.com/reactnative
• https://facebook.github.io/react-native/
• https://js.coach/react-native
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39111775/differences-between-require-and-passing-an-object-via-prop-or-context/39111942

[alloy]

I don’t think Redux is necessary/useful to grok in relation to RN. Why do you think it is?

[orta]

For all of that section it's a "nice to know, but you can totally live without"

But Redux for me is a big mindset changer, after watching the series on it by the creator I really started to understand how a lot of these advantages in this ecosystem are about how settings constraints in a flexible language can give really powerful abstractions.

I include it because it was important in me deciding that overall JS has better abstractions

[alloy]

Gotcha, that’s fair. I would definitely phrase it like that, though, because I think something like Babel is much more important to learn about in terms of starting to work with RN than learning about Redux.

[alexito4]

Just to add my 5c. That’s a good way of phrasing it. I’m working on a small app and haven’t added Redux (yet). Is interesting and useful to deal with state changes but not required. I have enough work to make RN, Relay and GraphQL work 😂

[jcampbell05]

Redux I would say is a big changer for your development skills but only once you get to event based / complex apps.

[orta]

https://github.com/ericdouglas/react-roadmap