Ebook: React Quickly: Painless Web Apps with React, JSX, Redux and GraphQL
Author: Azat Mardan
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- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Manning Publications
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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
- Meeting React
- Baby steps with React
- Introduction to JSX
- Making React interactive with states
- React component lifecycle events
- Handling events in React
- Working with forms in React
- Scaling React components
- Project: Menu component
- Project: Tooltip component
- Project: Timer component
- The Webpack build tool
- React routing
- Working with data using Redux
- Working with data using GraphQL
- Unit testing React with Jest
- React on Node and Universal JavaScript
- Project: Building a bookstore with React Router
- Project: Checking passwords with Jest
- Project: Implementing autocomplete with Jest, Express, and MongoDB
PART 1 - REACT FOUNDATION
PART 2 - REACT ARCHITECTURE
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