Thank you, I've been reading through the docs and some blogs to try and get my feet wet, but most are very tight-focused. A full-stack read is very welcome.

Thanks for recommendation, the tutorial looks impressive and overwhelming in the same as I'm just a beginner with React.

The tutorial is a little overwhelming, but you just take one step at a time and google any concept that you don't understand. One of the best aspects of this tutorial is that it relies on tests, which means that you gain a greater practical understanding of the functionality that you are implementing.

Care to be part of the slack group I just made as a mentor to all these guys who want to learn React? Tell me your email and I will fire an invitation right away :)

email is judah dot meek at gmail.com. I'd be happy to help out any way that I can. I also recommend the http://www.reactiflux.com/ community as a source of answers.

Can you explain more about the community? Is it beginner friendly or for freelancing etc?

Sorry, but nothing is mentioned on the website.

Reactiflux is a general discussion community for just about anything involving React and various related libraries, as well as Javascript. There's several general channels (#general, #need-help, etc), as well as channels for specific libraries like Redux, React-Native, Webpack, and more. It's _very_ beginner-friendly!

I sent you an invite. Happy you want to join us.

Kinda off topic but can i use React with Rails? Or better yet is it beneficial?

Yes, you certainly can. This is actually a topic that I've been exploring for a little while now.

http://www.openmindedinnovations.com/blogs/3-ways-to-integra... is a decent, although old article on the three different ways that it can be done.

I personally recommend https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails as the solution to this issue. Instead of merely providing you with React and React only like https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails does, it welds Node & Rails together to enable you to use the latest and greatest of the javascript ecosystem.

As for the benefits of doing so, having started my web development journey with Rails, I like to think that Rails provides an excellent convention for Backend MVC & ORM while Node gives you access to up-to-date javascript libraries & frameworks. Combining Node & Rails allows to you to exploit the strengths of both systems in exchange for dealing with greater complexity.