I wrote about this in my 2016 in review blog post (http://mxstbr.blog/2016/12/a-dream-come-true/) so I'll just quote from there:
I decided to become an employable front-end developer by taking a break from university and going to London for a three month internship at Animade.
After two months of working with the awesome folks there I was quite proficient in HTML, CSS and jQuery. In an effort to keep me learning for the last month of my internship, Simon and James encouraged me to learn and trial this new, hot JavaScript framework called React.
That's basically it, all of this only happened thanks to @simonneveu and @jameschambers!