Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, 2nd Edition

Learning React
A hands-on guide to building web applications using React and Redux

As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much, much easier.

What React isn’t, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React , author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help web developers new to React understand its fundamentals and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps.

The only book on the market that helps you get your first React app up and running in just minutes, Learning React is chock-full of colorful illustrations to help you visualize difficult concepts and practical step-by-step examples to show you how to apply what you learn.

• Build your first React app
• Create components to define parts of your UI
• Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs
• Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript
• Deal with maintaining state
• Work with React’s way of styling content
• Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle
• Build multi-page apps using routing and views
• Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and others

• Use Redux to make managing your app data and state easy

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing React
Chapter 2 Building Your First React App
Chapter 3 Components In React
Chapter 4 Styling In React
Chapter 5 Creating Complex Components
Chapter 6 Transferring Properties
Chapter 7 Meet Jsx…Again!
Chapter 8 Dealing With State In React
Chapter 9 Going From Data To Ui In React
Chapter 10 Events In React
Chapter 11 The Component Lifecycle
Chapter 12 Accessing Dom Elements In React
Chapter 13 Setting Up Your React Dev Environment Easily
Chapter 14 Working With External Data In React
Chapter 15 Building An Awesome Todo List App In React
Chapter 16 Creating A Sliding Menu In React
Chapter 17 Avoiding Unnecessary Renders In React
Chapter 18 Creating A Single-Page App In React Using React Router
Chapter 19 Introduction To Redux
Chapter 20 Using Redux With React