November 2016
Beginner
240 pages
6h 3m
English
Overview
Get Started Fast Building Modern Web Applications Using React
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 you understand the fundamentals of React and how to
use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps.
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
Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1 Introducing React
Chapter 2 Building Your First React App
Chapter 3 Components in React
Chapter 4 Styling in React
Chapter 5 Creating Complex Components
Chapter 6 Transferring Properties (Props)
Chapter 7 Meet JSX–Again!
Chapter 8 Dealing with State
Chapter 9 Going from Data to UI
Chapter 10 Working with Events
Chapter 11 The Component Lifecycle
Chapter 12 Accessing DOM Elements
Chapter 13 Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router
Chapter 14 Building a Todo List App
Chapter 15 Setting Up Your React Development Environment
Chapter 16 The End