Beginning React

by Greg Lim

Follow Greg at Developed by Facebook, React is one of the leading frameworks to build efficient web user interfaces. You use small manageable components to build large-sale, data-driven websites without page reloads. No more wasting time hunting for DOM nodes!In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to master React from a web development point of view. You'll start building React apps within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don’t want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have what it takes to develop a real-life app.About the Reader This book is for developers with basic familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript and object-oriented programming. No React experience needed.About the Author Greg Lim is a technologist and author of several programming books. Greg has many years in teaching programming in tertiary institutions and he places special emphasis on learning by doing.Table of Contents

IntroductionCreating and Using ComponentsBindings, Props, State and EventsWorking with ComponentsConditional RenderingBuilding Controlled FormsGetting Data From RESTful APIs with AxiosReact RoutingC.R.U.D. with FirebaseIntroduction to ReduxReact with ReduxIntroduction to React Hooks

166 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2017

Reviews

[Nikhil]

Best book to quickly go through reactjs ui framework

All the basic aspects are covered. Best for quick understand of how to build UI application in reactjs if you have prior knowledge of any other JavaScript frameworks.

[Annie]

Missing Pages

Started out great but is missing crucial pages. Disappointed because it's well written. I really would have liked continuing it.

[Long Tang]

Great for beginner

Good illustrations, examples, code snippets, code explanations, class vs. function, easy to follow. A good start for beginners. Highly recommended.