November 2021
Beginner to intermediate
230 pages
4h 49m
English
Content preview from React: Up & Running, 2nd Edition
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Preface
It’s yet another wonderful warm California night. The faint ocean breeze only helping you feel 100% “aaah!” The place: Los Angeles; the year: 2000-something. I was just getting ready to FTP my new little web app called CSSsprites.com to my server and release it to the world. I contemplated a problem on the last few evenings I spent working on the app: why on earth did it take 20% effort to wrap up the “meat” of the app and then 80% to wrestle with the user interface? How many other tools could I have made if I didn’t have to getElementById() all the time and worry about the state of the app? (Is the user done uploading? What, an error? Is this dialog still on?) Why is UI development so time consuming? And what’s up with all the different browsers? Slowly, the “aaah” was turning into “aarrggh!”
Fast forward to March 2015 at Facebook’s F8 conference. The team I’m part of is ready to announce a complete rewrite of two web apps: our third-party comments offering and a moderation tool to go with it. Compared to my little CSSsprites.com app, these were fully fledged web apps with tons more features, way more power, and insane amounts of traffic. Yet, the development was a joy. Teammates new to the app (and some even new to JavaScript and CSS) were able to come and contribute a feature here and an improvement there, picking up speed quickly and effortlessly. As one member of the team said, “Ah-ha, now I see what all the love is all about!”
What happened along the way? React. ...
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