Learning React as an Experienced Developer

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Have you been in this spot before?You’ve got a new project to tackle – maybe it’s a new UI, or a whole new app – so you decide to use a new technology (React!) and pick it up as you build the project. Learning while building! Super-efficient use of time. What could be better.This shouldn’t be too bad. After all, you’re not new to development. You know you could build this project with your current tech stack easy-peasy. Rails/PHP/jQuery/Angular/whatever is great, but it’s fun to learn new things.You can already see how the project will come together. Pieces of UI bolt together in your mind: buttons, headers, the login page, all so easy.But then reality hits…And you’re staring at “Welcome to React”, having just bootstrapped a project with Create React App (or was that React Create App… whatever)And… you’re lost. Where do you go from here?It’s easy, at this point, to start doing tutorial-driven development. It goes something like this:Choose a task (create login page, dis…