React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL

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Summary

React Quickly is for anyone who wants to learn React.js fast. This hands-on book teaches you the concepts you need with lots of examples, tutorials, and a large main project that gets built throughout the book.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Successful user interfaces need to be visually interesting, fast, and flowing. The React.js JavaScript library supercharges view-heavy web applications by improving data flow between UI components. React sites update visual elements efficiently and smoothly, minimizing page reloads. React is developer friendly, with a strong ecosystem to support the dev process along the full application stack. And because it's all JavaScript, React is instantly familiar.

About the Book

React Quickly is the tutorial for web developers who want to get started fast with React.js. Following carefully chosen and clearly explained examples, you'll learn React development using your existing JavaScript and web dev skills. You'll explore a host of different projects as you learn about web components, forms, and data.

What's Inside

  • Master React fundamentals
  • Build full web apps with data and routing
  • Test components
  • Optimize React apps

About the Reader

This book is for developers comfortable building web applications with JavaScript.

About the Author

Azat Mardan is a Tech Fellow at Capital One with extensive experience using and teaching JavaScript and Node, and author of several books on JavaScript, Node, React, and Express.

Table of Contens

    PART 1 - REACT FOUNDATION
  1. Meeting React
  2. Baby steps with React
  3. Introduction to JSX
  4. Making React interactive with states
  5. React component lifecycle events
  6. Handling events in React
  7. Working with forms in React
  8. Scaling React components
  9. Project: Menu component
  10. Project: Tooltip component
  11. Project: Timer component
  12. PART 2 - REACT ARCHITECTURE
  13. The Webpack build tool
  14. React routing
  15. Working with data using Redux
  16. Working with data using GraphQL
  17. Unit testing React with Jest
  18. React on Node and Universal JavaScript
  19. Project: Building a bookstore with React Router
  20. Project: Checking passwords with Jest
  21. Project: Implementing autocomplete with Jest, Express, and MongoDB
APPENDIXES
  • Appendix A - Installing applications used in this book
  • Appendix B - React cheatsheet
  • Appendix C - Express.js cheatsheet
  • Appendix D - MongoDB and Mongoose cheatsheet
  • Appendix E - ES6 for success

About the author

Azat Mardan is a software engineer leader and a university professor with extensive experience using and teaching JavaScript and Node. He’s the author of several books on JavaScript, Node, React, and Express, including the first edition of React Quickly.

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