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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by sah2ed on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:36AM (#13577944)

> Wouldn't reading a book about React before they started working with it be preferrable?

Great in theory but difficult in practice. Developers rarely ever have the luxury to pick up a book as a means of getting up to speed when there exists online resources like Google and StackOverflow where you can easily find posts that answer your query string(s) verbatim.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by TheOtherHobbes on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:09AM (#13579073)

But you don't necessarily know what you don't know.

If you don't know enough to ask high quality questions, SO and Google won't help you.

If you're lucky, G will lead you to tuts and repos with useful code.

If you're not, you'll make a ton of stupid beginner mistake and be overdrawn on the technical debt account before you even start.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by sah2ed on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:01AM (#13579973)

JavaScript frameworks are rarely ever worth buying a book to get up to speed for. Books like this [0] are a much better time investment as the deep knowledge gained would be useful beyond the currently trending JS framework.

[0] https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

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