React.js Essentials: A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js

by Artemij Fedosejev

A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js

About This BookBuild maintainable and performant user interfaces for your web applications using React.jsCreate reusable React.js components to save time and effort in maintaining your user interfacesLearn how to build a ready-to-deploy React.js web application, following our step-by-step tutorialWho This Book Is ForIf you're a front-end developer with knowledge of jQuery and its libraries, along with frameworks, such as Angular.JS and Backbone.JS, or native JavaScript development, and you wish to use the fastest web user interface library there is, then this book is ideal for you.

What You Will LearnInstall powerful React.js tools to make development much more efficientCreate React elements with properties and childrenGet started with stateless and stateful React componentsUse JSX to speed up your React.js development processAdd reactivity to your React components with lifecycle methodsIntegrate your React components with other JavaScript librariesUtilize the Flux application architecture with your React componentsTest your React components with Jest test frameworkIn DetailBuilding web applications with maintainable and performant user interfaces is a challenge that many have faced for more than a decade, but no one has risen to this challenge quite like React.js. Today React.js is used by Facebook, Instagram, Khan Academy, and Imperial College London, to name a few. Many new users recognize the benefits of React.js and adopt it in their own projects, forming a fast-growing community. The speed at which React.js has evolved promises a bright future for those who invest in learning it today.

React.js Essentials will take you on a fast-paced journey through building your own maintainable React.js application. Begin by exploring how you can create single and multiple user interface elements. Create stateless and stateful components and make them reactive, learn to interact between your components and lifecycle methods and gauge how to effectively integrate your user interface components with other JavaScript libraries. Delve deep into the core elements of the Flux architecture and learn how to manage your application using stores. Finish by going that extra mile with the Jest test framework, running multiple tests on your application and find solutions to scale it further without complexity.

Style and approachThe book adopts a step-by-step, hands-on approach with ample codes to ensure you learn React.js at a fast pace.

Genres: Technology, Programming, Computer Science, Technical, Software

210 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 27, 2015

Reviews

[Oleksandr Golovatyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book for learning basic React.js

[Pawel Wujczyk · Rating 1 out of 5]

I haven't finish the book I stopped at chapter 3. I read the book which was published in 2015. Unfortunately right now content is out of date. React.js had changed and now not all examples are right. After fighting with couple example which haven't been working because the syntax has changed I decided to drop this book.

[Lanżanka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice start.

[Ahmad Muhardian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buku lama, masih menggunakan React.js versi lama. Tidak ada satupun gambar dan screenshot, kebanyakan coding. Namun, ini cukup membantu saya dalam memahami konsep dasar React.js.

[Farhad Azadjou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its a greate short book that you can learn React basic concepts, React lifecycle, Jest for test your app and Flux architecture for data flow in your apps

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview of how to build and then update a react application. I guess it is a bit dated now as the react libraries have grown and changed considerably but still a useful read nonetheless

[Johnny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers a quick read on React.js and explains the main parts behind that framework. If you never worked with React.js then you may need to check a few additional resources to fully understand it. However, the book is a good start and you will quickly understand how the different parts work together.

[Shuvo Habib · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is great for starters. Expected a bit more theoretical explanation . Overall . its good. My rating 4 out of 5 .

[Robert Spiegel · Rating 4 out of 5]

It like a very fast and easy introduction, you can read in a few days.

[Illia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Зараз як зроблю щось таке React-ивне.