It's a difficult place to start from, because a lot of react tutorials are out of date, misleading, shallow, or deep in useless ways.
I think most people learn these frameworks by being put to work on a mature code base with established patterns, that already uses a set of frameworks. At first, you kind of don't understand the control flow, but you get better week over week from there. Over time, you are bootstraping your own opinions by asking questions and learning hands-on.
Eventually, you can start a project from scratch including the minimal dependencies yourself, as you learn what's actually useful, vs what's "the same interface, but dressed for business".
That being said, I'd recommend getting started with `create-react-app`, and following some of the tutorials. I'd then recommend jumping into hooks (https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html) as soon as possible, unless you have to maintain an older codebase that uses classes, because in "modern" react code, you're almost never using classes any more, and that reality bomb is not typically dropped on you in most react tutorials.
I think most people learn these frameworks by being put to work on a mature code base with established patterns, that already uses a set of frameworks. At first, you kind of don't understand the control flow, but you get better week over week from there. Over time, you are bootstraping your own opinions by asking questions and learning hands-on.
Eventually, you can start a project from scratch including the minimal dependencies yourself, as you learn what's actually useful, vs what's "the same interface, but dressed for business".
That being said, I'd recommend getting started with `create-react-app`, and following some of the tutorials. I'd then recommend jumping into hooks (https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html) as soon as possible, unless you have to maintain an older codebase that uses classes, because in "modern" react code, you're almost never using classes any more, and that reality bomb is not typically dropped on you in most react tutorials.