# How to learn React in 2025

DevFeed: [How to learn React in 2025](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-learn-react-in-2025-18947.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.robinwieruch.de/learning-react/>)

Author: Robin Wieruch

Published: 2025-02-25T05:52:46Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Robin Wieruch](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/robin-wieruch.md>)

Topics: [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [Next.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/next-js.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Server-side rendering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server-side-rendering.md>)

Tags: [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [learn-react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learn-react.md>), [next-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next-js.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>)

## AI overview

This article compares learning React in 2025 as a standalone library with learning it through an integrated framework such as Next.js. It explains changes in React's documentation and places the library-versus-framework choice in the broader evolution from server-side rendering to client-side applications and back toward server rendering.

## Source excerpt

Learning React in 2025 as a library or framework is not an easy decision. Whether to learn React with Next.js as a framework ...