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Why React?

If you’re reading this book, you probably are already familiar with React. But if you’re not, don’t worry. I’ll do my best to keep philosophical definitions to a minimum. However, this is a long book with a lot of content, so I feel that setting the tone is an appropriate first step. Our goal is to learn React and React Native, but it’s also to build a scalable and adaptive architecture that can handle everything we want to build with React today and in the future. In other words, we want to create a foundation around React, with a set of additional tools and approaches that can withstand the test of time. This book will guide you through the process of using tools like routing, TypeScript typing, testing, and many more.

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