60: James K Nelson on React with the Buzzwords

This week on React Podcast we sit down with James K Nelson. We discuss what makes React hard to learn and how he's addressing that with his teaching platform frontarm.com.

We talk about learning React without the buzzwords, his new router — Navi — and how to make some React bacon.

This is a great episode for those who have had trouble keeping up with React and want to discover and master the things have remained the same

Featuring

• James K Nelson — Twitter, Website, GitHub
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Website, GitHub

Links

• Weird, or just different? — Derek Siver’s TED talk on Japanese vs American street naming
• Dan Abromov’s tweet about React without buzzwords
• Learn React’s fundamentals without the buzzwords
• The Little Schemer — The book we mention that uses the Socratic method to teach functional programming
• railstutorial.org — How chantastic learned Rails
• “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” — Jeff Bezos’ famous focusing question
• ReactJS Tokyo
• create-react-app — Set up a modern web app by running one command
• Next.js — The React Framework for Everything
• Navi — Declarative, asynchronous routing for React

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