React Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to React

by Zac Gordon, Mikall Angela Hill (Editor), Robbie Adair (Editor)

Updated June 2020!
React Explained is a fun and enjoyable introduction to React, which is the Javascript framework of choice for WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and thousands of developers.
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What You’ll Learn
In React Explained, readers will dig deep into how React works and will learn how to build applications with it. While the focus is on building for the frontend on the web, many of the skills you will learn will also apply to writing React on the server side, for native applications and even for Virtual Reality environments.

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About the Author
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, who currently focuses on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress at javascriptforwp.com. Zac has years of experience teaching at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites like Treehouse, Udemy and Frontend Masters. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers. You can also catch his free Office Yoga sessions on OfficeYoga.tv.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science

366 pages, Paperback

Published March 5, 2019

Reviews

[Stewart Hoffman]

React Explained isn’t your first book on React. I think (as it was for me) this is your second book on React basics. Learning React by Kirupa Chinnathambi is how I got started with this subject, and React Explained was a decent follow-up. The text is a little dry, and I’ll admit my eyes started to glaze over at the end, but the examples were good, there were no significant errors (something I’ve noticed in other manuals) and the online source code is easy to locate and use.

[Leigh Forrest]

Already outdated

I’d say it was mostly good…. Until you got to Firebase. The API changed August 2021 and the changes were breaking. After an exhaustive Google search I gave up because I was getting lost.