React.js Learning Path (2 Months)

Month 1: Foundations and Core Concepts

Week 1: React Basics

• Introduction to React and JSX
• Setting up development environment (Node.js, npm, Create React App)
• Functional components and props
• State and event handling
• Building simple interactive components

Week 2: Component Lifecycle & Advanced Hooks

• Class components and lifecycle methods
• Introduction to hooks: useState, useEffect
• Custom hooks
• Conditional rendering and lists
• Forms and controlled components

Week 3: Routing & State Management Essentials

• React Router: setting up navigation and nested routes
• Managing local component state
• Context API for global state management
• Prop drilling and solution strategies
• Practice: Multi-page app with state management

Week 4: Data Fetching & Integrations

• Fetching data using fetch API and axios
• Handling loading and error states
• Introduction to component testing (Jest, React Testing Library)
• Performance optimization basics (memo, useCallback, useMemo)
• Practice: API-driven app with caching

Month 2: Advanced Topics and Projects

Week 5: Advanced State Management

• Introduction to Redux and Redux Toolkit
• Async actions with Redux Thunk or Redux Saga
• State normalization and slices
• Middleware in Redux
• Practice: Complex app with Redux integration

Week 6: Styling & Accessibility

• CSS Modules, styled-components, and other CSS-in-JS solutions
• Responsive design principles in React
• Accessibility basics and ARIA roles in React apps
• Animations and transitions (React Spring, Framer Motion basics)
• Practice: Styled and accessible UI components

Week 7: Testing, Deployment & Tooling

• Unit testing, snapshot testing, and end-to-end testing overview
• Debugging React applications
• Build optimizations and code splitting
• Setting up deployment pipelines (Netlify, Vercel)
• Continuous integration basics

Week 8: Capstone Project

• Plan and develop a full-featured React application
• Integrate routing, state management, APIs, and styles
• Optimize performance and ensure accessibility
• Test and deploy the app
• Review and prepare for advanced React or ecosystem learning