React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL

by Azat Mardan

React is a JavaScript library developed for one main reason--to build reusable UI components that present ever-changing data. The React philosophy is to focus solely on the user interface. In model-view-controller (MVC) terminology, React is the view. Because it has to work with models and other libraries, it's designed to play nicely with pretty much any other framework, router, style, and model library. And it's well-supported--React emerged from Instagram and is now used by Facebook, Asana, Khan Academy, and Atom among many more.

React Quickly is for anyone who wants to learn React.js fast. This hands-on book teaches needed concepts by using lots of examples, tutorials, and a large main project that gets built throughout. It starts with the basics, including how React fits into applications, JSX, and handling states, and events. Next, it explores core topics like components, forms, and data. Finally, the book dives into React integration topics, like unit testing and isomorphic JavaScript with Express.js, and Gulp.



-In his new book, React Quickly, Azat Mardan has in his typical lucid style, laid out everything you need to learn about the React ecosystem and build performant SPA applications quickly. Just the chapters on React State and Universal Javascript are worth the price of the book.- Prakash Sarma, CEO, Newstar Corp. newstar-online.com -Simple language with simple logical examples to get you up and running quickly is why this book truly justifies to its title, -React Quickly-. This book covers all major topics that any developer new to a React needs to start getting productive writing Apps using React. This book will keep you engaged. I am thankful that Azat took time to share his React journey with us.- Suhas Deshpande, Software Engineer at Capital One Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Genres: Technology, Programming, Nonfiction, Computer Science

528 pages, Paperback

Published September 28, 2017

Reviews

[Sirwan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good introduction to React and its friends but it's a bit outdated. Also I didn't like the examples as they were difficult to follow; It doesn't have a straightforward way to re-create the examples. Author could use create-react-app for setting up examples.

[Kethmar Salumets · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not sure if I had given this book a 5-star-rating as a beginner, but as I've got some experience in web development and React, it was really easy to get a broad overview of how things are done in React . The author also gave tips/explanations for non-React related technologies, which made the book easier to follow.

I'd definitely recommend this book for someone who knows about web development but not React specifically.

[Tomasz Jaskula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good introduction to reactJs, patterns and tooling like Webpack and Jest for unit testing. I didn’t really like chapters with reactJs projects that I find were hard to follow from pieces of code. From time to time author assumes some knowledge from the reader which made some parts of the book not easy to follow. In the end it’s a very good book to start with and reactJs

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shallow "humor", pretentious stupid statement here and there, jumpy style, constant repetition of self-evident common wisdom to the point when it all becomes pathetic, pain of reading package.json with comments on each example...

But overall its decent.

It touches wide range of topics.

A bit dated, no hooks and talks version 15, but grounds are covered.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit too extraneous for a beginner. Azat's extensive experience blinds him from the perspective of a novice. But without a doubt this book seems to cover all the fundamentals of React, I did not complete every exercise in the book but will use them as a reference for when I am building my project.

[Vee Son · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the problem with programming books, the technology is quickly outdated.
Although the concepts can be transferred to modern react, most difficulties have been
addressed and dealt with e.g hooks.
I would suggest reading the first half of the book, then use the official documentation on the official website to complete learning the basics.