Which is easier...learning react or learning both javascript and php

Question

would you prefer learning react that does not only perform on the client side, but it can also be rendered server side, and they can work together inter-operably or learning javascript that performs on the client-side and later learning php that performs on the server-side???
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Answer 1

as far as i know react is a JavaScript library. So, how did you propose to learn react before learning JavaScript?