Learning ReactJS to build a standard, open-source web-app for makerspaces

I am learning how to write Javascript at work more effectively through projects. One of the ways I strive to get better at adapting components in my code is developing a web-app for an upcoming makerspace on campus at MIT. My hope is that the structure in the web-app could be a standard codebase for any makerspace that would like to run a web-app with a nice news-feed styled, locally hosted server.