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What advice will you give to beginners who want to get started with React/webpack, but are overwhelmed while choosing a learning path. And how can SurviveJS help them?
I feel a lot of complexity lies in understanding the ecosystem and being aware of what exists. That is something I wanted to tackle with this effort. I wanted to bring separate threads together into something coherent. Interestingly the effort has taught a lot to me as well. Often community is smarter than me. :)
You can definitely pick it all up from various online resources, but there's always the trouble of hunting them down and making them work for you. And this material gets old quite fast! It's bit of a challenge for an author to try to keep up with the progress. That's something I've wanted to do with this effort. I see it as a long term commitment.
It's good to understand that you don't necessarily need to learn webpack to get started with React. You can just pick up some setup and go. It's an amazing tool, though, and eventually you may want to understand it in greater detail. I am in the process of splitting up the book to highlight this fact and make it easier to learn the nooks and crannies of it. It's good to be aware of its capabilities.
In the near future you can get started straight with React without having to delve through webpack specifics. Or if you don't care about React, you can dig into webpack and understand it in greater detail.
There is no one right way to pick up technology. I feel it depends on how you like to learn. Some people want to go through books on their own time, for some it's enough to study examples. Or you can follow some nice video tutorials to see how things are done. All approaches have their merits and you'll need to find something fitting your learning style.
Sometimes material will just "click" with you and it will make it easier to learn. As an author the challenge for me is to allow this to happen.