1.1 Introduction

Welcome to this tuts+ course on building a Web Application with react and Redux. I'm Major Burgess, and I'll be your instructor through these lessons. React and Redux are really really popular libraries these days. And if you haven't had an opportunity to look at them yet, this is your chance in this series of lessons. We're going to build a complete web application using react and redux. We're going to start out very very simply everything we write will be in a single file and we're going to slowly add features to our web application until we have a pretty reasonably sized project that's going to span over a dozen files. If you've found that other tutorials are a little bit difficult for a beginner to follow, I hope you'll find these lessons to be a great way to learn. We're going to assume you know pretty much nothing about react and redux and we're gonna build from there. Before we get started, I want to mention that we're going to be using ECMAScript 6 throughout these lessons. Of course you don't need to use ES6 if you want to use react and redux. However some of the newer syntax in ES6 will make our work a little bit easier. If you're not familiar with the ES6 syntax, don't worry. I try to explain a lot of what we're using along the way. However, there are a ton of great ES6 resources out there that you can use to get started. So if you're ready to get started, let's go.