March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 28m
English
Chapter 1, Taking Your First Steps with React, covers some basic concepts that are important for following the rest of the book, and that are crucial to working with React daily. We will learn how to write declarative code, and will gain a clear understanding of the difference between the components we create, and the elements React uses to display their instances on the screen. We'll then learn the reasons behind the choice of co-locating logic and templates together, and why that unpopular decision has been a big win for React. We will go through the reasons why it is common to feel fatigue in the JavaScript ecosystem, but we'll also see how to avoid those problems by following an iterative approach. Finally, we will ...