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I've been a full-stack web developer for many years but the last two years I've switched to C++ & Qt development and god is it a pleasure to work with. I only work with Qt Widgets, but I've always wanted to fiddle with QML/QtQuick, although I find the official tutorials lacking.

Any good resources to start working with QML/QtQuick?

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It's easy as pie, start with qmlscene and a QML Rect, add some MouseArea and change the rect's color when you click, later follow some QML / C++ binding tutorials.

Some best practices: Still do your nontrivial models and other application logic in C++, don't try to solve every UI state problems with states and transitions - they are overkill for simple situations and underpowered when it gets really difficult. Also you'll learn to, and how to, avoid imperative code in JS over time.

Do use the QML profiler to investigate performance.

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