Learning React
A hands-on guide to building web applications using React and
Redux As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite
the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems
developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few
additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much,
much easier.
What React isn't, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until
now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his
fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help web developers
new to React understand its fundamentals and how to use it to build
really performant (and awesome) apps. The only book on the market that
helps you get your first React app up and running in just minutes,
Learning React is chock-full of colorful illustrations to help you
visualize difficult concepts and practical step-by-step examples to show
you how to apply what you learn.
- Build your first React app
- Create components to define parts of your UI
- Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs
- Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript
- Deal with maintaining state
- Work with React's way of styling content
- Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle
- Build multi-page apps using routing and views
- Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack,
and others
- Use Redux to make managing your app data and state easy
Contents at a Glance 1 Introducing React 2 Building Your First React
App 3 Components in React 4 Styling in React 5 Creating Complex
Components 6 Transferring Properties 7 Meet JSX... Again! 8 Dealing with
State in React 9 Going from Data to UI in React 10 Events in React 11
The Component Lifecycle 12 Accessing DOM Elements in React 13 Setting Up
Your React Dev Environment 14 Working with External Data in React 15
Building an Awesome Todo List App in React 16 Creating a Sliding Menu in
React 17 Avoiding Unnecessary Renders in React 18 Creating a Single-Page
App in React Using React Router 19 Introduction to Redux 20 Using Redux
with React
