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

34 points by alinalex ↗ HN
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.

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

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

alinalex
Hi! You can find me on twitter @RautaAlin and we'll talk there and make a plan. What do you say?
judahmeek
I strongly recommend starting with http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...
mos_basik
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.
alinalex
Thanks for recommendation, the tutorial looks impressive and overwhelming in the same as I'm just a beginner with React.
judahmeek
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.
lignux
Kinda off topic but can i use React with Rails? Or better yet is it beneficial?
judahmeek
Yes, you certainly can. This is actually a topic that I've been exploring for a little while now.

http://www.openmindedinnovations.com/blogs/3-ways-to-integra... is a decent, although old article on the three different ways that it can be done.

I personally recommend https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails as the solution to this issue. Instead of merely providing you with React and React only like https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails does, it welds Node & Rails together to enable you to use the latest and greatest of the javascript ecosystem.

As for the benefits of doing so, having started my web development journey with Rails, I like to think that Rails provides an excellent convention for Backend MVC & ORM while Node gives you access to up-to-date javascript libraries & frameworks. Combining Node & Rails allows to you to exploit the strengths of both systems in exchange for dealing with greater complexity.

alinalex
Care to be part of the slack group I just made as a mentor to all these guys who want to learn React? Tell me your email and I will fire an invitation right away :)
judahmeek
email is judah dot meek at gmail.com. I'd be happy to help out any way that I can. I also recommend the http://www.reactiflux.com/ community as a source of answers.
sudshekhar
Can you explain more about the community? Is it beginner friendly or for freelancing etc?

Sorry, but nothing is mentioned on the website.

acemarke
Reactiflux is a general discussion community for just about anything involving React and various related libraries, as well as Javascript. There's several general channels (#general, #need-help, etc), as well as channels for specific libraries like Redux, React-Native, Webpack, and more. It's _very_ beginner-friendly!
alinalex
I sent you an invite. Happy you want to join us.
sjroot
I'm down!
alinalex
Find me on twitter @RautaAlin and we'll talk more :)
chaudhary27
I am down to learn react.
alinalex
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
could you add me as well? mattjohnsen@protonmail.com
alinalex
I just sent you an invite. I'm pleased you want to join us. Also, please tell me if the invite did not get in your inbox
pault
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.
alinalex
I emailed you an invitation at parkerault @ gmail . com. Is that email correct?
simple_life
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.
alinalex
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_life
Sure. Would love to. siddharth[dot]soka+hn[at]gmail[dot]com
jacobkranz
Just to let you know, gmail omits the periods in their emails.

siddharth[dot]soka+hn[at]gmail[dot]com siddharthsoka+hn[at]gmail[dot]com siddharth[dot][dot][dot][dot]soka+hn[at]gmail[dot]com

will all go to your email account

simple_life
I am aware of that. I often use the trick to register multiple times on the same website. Also, you can use (+) to create unlimited siblings of your gmail address. Helpful to keep track of spams.
bhrgunatha
I don't think it works with spam anymore - except for naive spammers, they are very aware of this trick.

It IS for organising legitimate incoming mail though.

sunilkumarc
I wonder how many people know about this? And how exactly using '+something' helps in filtering spams?
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alinalex
So is siddharth.soka+hn@gmail.com? That + sign got me confused haha
dstaten
I second this -- they're fantastic courses
[dead] dragonvspanda
I think it is the perfect choice to start as a beginner. I too second this.
wje
Sounds fun! I'm down to learn with you.
alinalex
Give me your email address or contact me on twitter @RautaAlin to invite you on the slack group I just made.
aakashsigdel
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
I'm currently working on my first React side project as we speak. Give me a holler. Email in profile :)
alinalex
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
alinalex
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.
acemarke
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.
alinalex
Thanks a lot acemarke! I appreciate it! Wanna join the slack group on learning react together? :)
acemarke
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 .

alinalex
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,

ecesena
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

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

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

alinalex
I sent you an invite to the slack group.
fatpixel
This is exactly what I am looking for! If there's still room on the team, I'd love to join!
alinalex
Please tell me your email address and I will send you an invite right away
motu
I'm down
alinalex
Please give me your email address and I will send you an invite
[dead] motu
I'm down
saikumarr
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