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by noughtme 2271 days ago
This is the best and most recent series of tutorials i’ve seen on integrating D3 into React, and it uses up to date Hooks and React Functional Components:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ4p-ENjbiPo4WH7KdHj...

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Do people sit in front of the computer watch/listen-to these instead of reading something like https://www.newline.co/fullstack-react/ ? I mean - without committing suicide?

If so, ... how?

You probably didn't see udemy or the likes yet, huh? Of course people watch courses. Especially in the world of tech, a good video course will show you what a book cannot (since they cannot contain 10,000s pictures or animation or many details or ...) - with front end this rule applies tenfolds.
As a beginner, i find that watching someone code and talk provides a lot of context you don’t get from a step by step Hello World guide or API docs. I only turn to docs once I have a reasonable understanding of something. I also don’t want to commit to a 5 hour course, when a few 20 minute videos could give me enough of an understanding that i would then be able to navigate the docs.
I agree, videos are great to convey concepts but text is superiour for step by step tutorials.
I would much rather watch the YouTube video GP posted than look at the ad you posted.