August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
61 pages
1h 12m
English
Overview
React quickly has become one of the most influential tools for web development and a compelling choice for many projects. The decision to use a new library such as React is critical to the way that teams function, so it’s essential to get buy-in from everybody at the table, including team members who are not developers.
Many excellent resources will teach you how to use React, but few get into just why this library matters. In this ebook, author Eric Baer examines React’s core innovations with as little jargon as possible to help promote a diverse set of views in your conversations about technology.
Any member of a technical team, from software engineers to program and product managers to technical management, can use this ebook to understand how the features and constraints of React and other development tools affect the way companies build modern web applications.
You’ll explore:
- How React’s core components work
- How React uses tricks from game development to deliver runtime performance by default
- Why React’s academic leanings have pushed the web development community to adopt cutting-edge techniques from computer science
- The challenges with using React on large projects
- Why React Native is pushing the limits of code reuse across web and native development boundaries
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