- Carefully do the official [tutorial][].
- Read the official guide to [main concepts][].
- Read the official [advanced guides][].
- Watch [building React from scratch][] to get an idea of how React actually works (this covers the "stack" reconciler which was used in React 15 and earlier).
- Go through the [React "fiber" architecture][] which is the default reconciler since React 16.
- Go crazy, build your own projects, and stop doing React tutorials!
Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs
- Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
- User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?