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React and React Native: Build cross-platform JavaScript and TypeScript apps for the web, desktop, and mobile
518 pages, Paperback
Published April 29, 2024
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June 21, 2024
By the end of this book, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of React and React Native, enabling you to build powerful applications across platforms.
Highly recommended for React and full-stack developers looking to advance their skills in the React ecosystem.
Highly recommended for React and full-stack developers looking to advance their skills in the React ecosystem.
June 22, 2024
The authors really impressed me, who is not a Web developer, with how React is introduced and taught.
I am now itching to create a toy project and then something useful for work.
Firstly, why I thought of React when we have so many Web Frameworks? A spoiler alert: I learned from this book React is not a Web Framework per-se). Anyway, in my view, most of the Web Frameworks are opinionated. I do not think this is a good property. I value flexibility and the ability to do things the way I am comfortable with or however I see them fit. React is exactly that jewel in the crown: a modern User Interface framework (UI) that has no limits. Its one other excellent design decision is in that it has abandoned the imperative programming approach (learnt from the book), which is highly suitable for fluid UIs.
The book is actually like a two in-one bundle: the React and React Native. There is some overlap in material coverage, but it is necessary because it stems from how the React / React Native is targeting discrete platforms.
I think JSX is the core of React so the authors made a special effort to cover it from the bottom up very nicely. A big plus, because it is like laying a sound foundation to getting developing a solid Web App.
Next, the Hooks, this is an exiting, relatively new and interesting concept that is well implemented in React and explained in the book. I fell in love in programming this way, Hooks are an elegant feature!
And React has more neat and useful design points as code separation, built-in state management/ memoization - everything is explained in the book really well.
So not to delay, embrace React and React Native!
I am now itching to create a toy project and then something useful for work.
Firstly, why I thought of React when we have so many Web Frameworks? A spoiler alert: I learned from this book React is not a Web Framework per-se). Anyway, in my view, most of the Web Frameworks are opinionated. I do not think this is a good property. I value flexibility and the ability to do things the way I am comfortable with or however I see them fit. React is exactly that jewel in the crown: a modern User Interface framework (UI) that has no limits. Its one other excellent design decision is in that it has abandoned the imperative programming approach (learnt from the book), which is highly suitable for fluid UIs.
The book is actually like a two in-one bundle: the React and React Native. There is some overlap in material coverage, but it is necessary because it stems from how the React / React Native is targeting discrete platforms.
I think JSX is the core of React so the authors made a special effort to cover it from the bottom up very nicely. A big plus, because it is like laying a sound foundation to getting developing a solid Web App.
Next, the Hooks, this is an exiting, relatively new and interesting concept that is well implemented in React and explained in the book. I fell in love in programming this way, Hooks are an elegant feature!
And React has more neat and useful design points as code separation, built-in state management/ memoization - everything is explained in the book really well.
So not to delay, embrace React and React Native!
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