This is a part of the series “Henry is getting ready for Olavstoppen”. You can find the other posts by following the tag “Getting Ready 4 OT”. To learn React I have been following this React course by Wes Bos. And the following is mostly my notes and ramblings trying to digest it. React is, according to reactjs.org, “A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.” Creating our first Component Writing HTML with JSX Linking up your CSS-file Passing dynamic data with Props Routing with React Router Helper functions Events, Refs and this Binding Events Ref and Binding Rule number 1: Don’t touch the DOM.

I start in my new job at Olavstoppen the 1st of April. Yesterday I got an email with some more information on what technology I will be using: React, React-Native and Redux. I have some knowledge with React from one small project in class ( and some tinkering on my own ), but I can’t say that I’m a pro. Not yet at least. My goal is to (1.) be efficient in writing code in React, then (2.