But I dove in anyway. I managed to get through the basic Facebook tutorial and some others and got some React Native apps running, but it was quite a challenging experience and I didn't feel ...

It can be tempting to jump right in with React before you grasp the basics of JavaScript. But there’s more to a framework than just a language, and you’ll need a few essential tools to get going.

The last two weeks we built up a few charts with Uber’s open-source library, React-vis, drawing on the City of New York’s Popular Baby Names data set. This week we’ll look at adding some ...