My educational roots are in graphic design but I have taken on more and more front end development as my career has progressed to the point that I'm mostly codi

My educational roots are in graphic design but I have taken on more and more front end development as my career has progressed to the point that I'm mostly coding these days. With Web design, I started with simple HTML sites, learned CSS, then learned some JS to manipulate the DOMs I created. Having run into some of the jQuery pitfalls that the author describes, This tutorial meets me where I'm at and takes me to a new place, using incremental, concrete, and practical examples to show me that React is a logical extension of JS in certain use cases. Designers are visual people, so being able to see each step along the way and telling me why it's important is a really big deal. I have some projects now where I'm changing state quite a bit, and I can now see where React would be really useful. Designers also tend to get into the web coding stack from the front end first, so I think we end up thinking about coding a Web site in a really different way than back-end developers with a background in software engineering.