This roadmap will help you become a React Monster — from beginner to advanced level. It covers everything you need: basics, hooks, React Query, testing, performance, system design, and more!
📝 If anything is missing, feel free to add or let me know.
🧱 1. Before Learning React
Make sure you know the basics of:
- ✅ HTML (tags, forms, tables, semantic elements)
- ✅ CSS (flexbox, grid, media queries)
- ✅ JavaScript (ES6+ features like
let,const, arrow functions, arrays, objects,async/await) - ✅ How the browser and DOM work
⚛️ 2. React Basics
- JSX (React’s special HTML+JavaScript)
- Components (functions that return UI)
- Props (send data to components)
- State (handle changing data)
- Handling events (click, input, etc.)
- Lists & Keys (rendering multiple items)
- Conditional Rendering (if-else in JSX)
- Forms (controlled vs uncontrolled)
🔁 3. All React Hooks (Official List)
React hooks help you use features like state, side-effects, context, etc., inside functional components.
🧠 State & Reducer
useStateuseReducer
⚙️ Side Effects
useEffectuseLayoutEffectuseInsertionEffect
🌍 Context
useContext
🔎 Refs & Imperative
useRefuseImperativeHandle
⚡ Performance
useMemouseCallbackuseTransitionuseDeferredValue
🧰 Other Hooks
useDebugValueuseIduseSyncExternalStoreuseActionState
🪝 4. Custom Hooks
- Create your own hooks (like
useFetch,useLocalStorage) - Reuse logic across components
- Keep code clean and readable
🧩 5. Useful Design Patterns
- Container & Presentational components
- Compound components
- Higher-Order Components (HOC)
- Render Props
- State machines with xState
🧰 6. Styling Options
- CSS Modules
- Tailwind CSS
- Styled Components
- Material UI / Chakra UI / Shadcn UI
🛣️ 7. Routing
- React Router v6
- Nested routes
- Protected routes (for logged-in users)
- Lazy loading routes
- TanStack Router (advanced option)
🗃️ 8. State Management
- Local:
useState,useReducer - Global: Context API, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Jotai
- Server state: TanStack Query (React Query) for API data, caching, pagination, and background updates
🔗 9. Data Fetching
- Using
fetchoraxios - React Query or SWR (for smarter fetching)
- REST API or GraphQL (Apollo)
- Show loading and error states
- Retry failed requests
- Optimistic updates
🛡️ 10. Authentication
- Firebase / Supabase
- JWT Tokens
- NextAuth.js / Clerk
- Login, logout, protect routes
🧪 11. Testing in React
✅ Unit Testing
- Vitest or Jest
- React Testing Library
🚀 End-to-End Testing
Cypress or Playwright
Test forms, buttons, routes
Check for errors
Make sure the UI works as expected
🧱 12. System Design (for React)
- Project structure (feature folders, components, services)
- Code splitting & lazy loading
- Server-Side Rendering (SSR)
- Static Site Generation (SSG)
- WebSockets for real-time apps
- Logging (Sentry)
⚙️ 13. Next.js (React Framework)
- File-based routing
- API routes
- App Router (Next 13+)
- SSR, ISR, middleware
- Authentication with NextAuth.js
⚡ 14. Performance Tips
-
React.memo,useMemo,useCallback - Lazy loading components
- Reduce bundle size
- Virtualization (react-window)
- Analyze performance with React Profiler
🧪 15. TypeScript with React
- Add type safety
- Type your props and state
- Use Zod for form validation
- Build safer, cleaner apps
🧰 16. Extra Tools and Libraries
- Forms: React Hook Form + Zod
- Drag & Drop: dnd-kit / react-beautiful-dnd
- CMS: Sanity / Strapi
- Animation: Framer Motion
- Storybook: for reusable components
🧪 17. Real-World Projects to Build
- ✅ Portfolio website with blog
- ✅ E-commerce website (with cart + payments)
- ✅ Admin Dashboard
- ✅ Chat App (real-time with sockets)
- ✅ To-do App with drag-and-drop
- ✅ YouTube or Notion Clone
📚 18. React Interview Prep
- What is Virtual DOM & Reconciliation?
- Difference: useEffect vs useLayoutEffect
- Optimize performance in React
- Build custom hooks
- React 19+ changes
- DSA + UI problems
- Practice on GitHub
🌱 19. Keep Growing!
- Read React docs and RFCs
- Follow Fireship, Akshay Saini, Jack Herrington
- Join communities on Discord, X (Twitter)
- Contribute to open-source
- Make side projects and share them!
✅ Final Words
- 🧠 Mastering React takes time. Be consistent.
- 🔁 Don’t skip testing, performance, and system design.
- 🧪 Write clean code. Write tests.
- 🚀 Build real projects, fix bugs, and keep learning.
🙏 If I missed anything, please suggest me
Top comments (5)
This is probably the most detailed React roadmap I've seen, would've saved me weeks if I had it sooner. Curious how you'd prioritize these steps for someone starting in 2025 - what would you focus on first?
@dotallio
According to me, JavaScript is the most important part of learning web development because everything — directly or indirectly — depends on it.
If your basics are strong, you can easily migrate from one language to another, from one library to another, or even switch frameworks without much difficulty.
Fundamentals are the most important part, but unfortunately, many people skip the basics and jump straight into advanced topics — which often becomes a major hurdle in their learning journey.
So if you're starting in 2025, I’d highly recommend focusing first on JavaScript fundamentals before moving ahead.
been cool seeing steady progress - it adds up. you think it’s mostly habits that keep folks learning long-term, or something else?
@nevodavid Yes focus on long term learning. The Good things always take good amount of time but if you jumping one topic from another topic then it will also impact your long term learning .
Choice one topic watch different videos or read doc related to that topic instant on learning different things at once focus on single.
Master that topic and then only jump on another this will really help you 😀
We all are Different our brain 🧠 are different may be some one complete one topic in just 2 day but you take 7 day but still you are not confidance on that topic so don't compare your self with other.
Keep learning and keep growing 💗
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