My passion for web development definitely stems from my love of problem solving. There's something very satisfying about taking a problem and bending it to your will with some code. Hi there. I'm Ryan Johnson, the web developer from Canada, where I've had the privilege of working in the tech industry for 15 years now. Over that time, I've been lucky enough to work at a variety of different places ranging from small startups to large enterprise companies. Today, I want to introduce you to one of my favorite libraries to work with react js.

Not only is react JS backed by Facebook, but also has one of the most vibrant development communities out there. I started using react three years ago, and I haven't looked back since for me react makes UI development more fun. React brings some much needed order to interface development by allowing you to split up your interface into nice clean components. This course is geared towards developers that already have a good understanding of JavaScript but want to pick up react. A lot of newcomers to react tend to get hung up on external dependencies like Webpack and Redux and Babel and linting and testing and so on. In these lessons, I'll be avoiding those distractions and sticking to react fundamentals and then guiding you through the creation of your first staff to wrap things up, I'll do my best to unravel how react works and what makes it so efficient.

If you're like me and like to understand what's going on underneath the hood and the tools you use these lessons are for you. I'm super excited to introduce you to react and I really hope you enjoy working with it as much as I do. So let's go ahead and get started.