On March 22, 2017 I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with my friend Asif Rehmani, the head of VisualSP.
You can view the webinar recording here, and download the slide deck for the webinar here .
Here's a list of resources you can use to ramp up on the SharePoint Framework.
SPFx Training Modules
https://github.com/OfficeDev/TrainingContent/tree/master/SharePoint/SharePointFramework
Patterns and Practices
https://dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices
SharePoint StackExchange
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/
Tag your questions and comments with #spfx, #spfx-webparts, and #spfx-tooling.
Documentation GitHub Repository
https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs
