It depends which part of the project you want to contribute to, but the frontend is React and all the code is JS. The backend is relatively more complex.

Good start is to check https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news 
Yes, React is a good match :)

What are the skills needed to contribute to sn? will having a React/JS background be good?

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I'm working on a handful of small bug fixes/enhancements. Then I actually need to do the write up on our first sub options I've been teasing.