Mastering React

by Adam Horton

Master the art of building modern web applications using React This book is ideal for web developers possessing strong core JavaScript fundamentals who are also interested in learning what React brings to the architectural table. Previous experience with React or other web frameworks isn't required, but may help. React stands out in the web framework crowd through its approach to composition. This approach yields blazingly fast rendering capabilities. This book will help you understand what makes React special. It starts with the fundamentals and uses a pragmatic approach, focusing on clear development goals. You'll learn how to combine many web technologies surrounding React into a complete set for constructing a modern web application. With this text, you'll blitz the basics then swiftly move on to advanced topics such as form validation and complete application construction. You'll also explore several design activities which will help you develop your web applications with a thoughtful plan. Finally, you'll learn several methods for implementing slick animations using React. This is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that helps you get a solid understanding of the ins and outs of React development. For application development, you will get a high view of the anatomy where you will zoom into each part and make decisions by moving through the application's anatomy; selecting a solution that fits the problem and lines up with your goals.

Genres: Technology, Programming

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 23, 2016

Reviews

[Karol Pasierb]

It started off rather ok, because I already went through a React course. However, the next chapters revealed why people dislike this book. It just throws some code at you with rather shallow explanation or even the purpose of usage. It was just boring and felt like very rushed. I surely wouldn't master React after finishing this book.
Unfinished at 31%

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

The material is far enough out of date that it seriously affects the usefulness of the book, however the authors worked very hard on creating a solid tutorial application. The only critique on their teaching style is they built a monolithic application that was not capable of fully running until the 2nd to last chapter, making it a beast to debug (especially considering I was trying to work with a much newer version of React than the version they used in the book). It's quite a project to get everything working, but a great experience nonetheless.

[David Rissato Cruz · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 stars. I didn't mind the fact information is outdated, I can pretty understand why. However, I expected the author could go deeper in concept explanations, specially about redux. Instead, he started spreading a pile of code with some strange solutions that probably could be better designed, specially if it had automated tests in mind. By the way, he doesn't even mention automated tests. I probably set too high expectations beforehand due to the "Mastering" part of its title.

[Davide Curletti · Rating 2 out of 5]

Low stars because it's not an advanced book like it implies.