React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL

by Azat Mardan

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.

Genres: Technology, Programming, Nonfiction, Computer Science

Kindle Edition

Published May 8, 2018

Reviews

[Sirwan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good introduction to React and its friends but it's a bit outdated. Also I didn't like the examples as they were difficult to follow; It doesn't have a straightforward way to re-create the examples. Author could use create-react-app for setting up examples.

[Kethmar Salumets · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not sure if I had given this book a 5-star-rating as a beginner, but as I've got some experience in web development and React, it was really easy to get a broad overview of how things are done in React . The author also gave tips/explanations for non-React related technologies, which made the book easier to follow.

I'd definitely recommend this book for someone who knows about web development but not React specifically.

[Tomasz Jaskula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good introduction to reactJs, patterns and tooling like Webpack and Jest for unit testing. I didn’t really like chapters with reactJs projects that I find were hard to follow from pieces of code. From time to time author assumes some knowledge from the reader which made some parts of the book not easy to follow. In the end it’s a very good book to start with and reactJs

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shallow "humor", pretentious stupid statement here and there, jumpy style, constant repetition of self-evident common wisdom to the point when it all becomes pathetic, pain of reading package.json with comments on each example...

But overall its decent.

It touches wide range of topics.

A bit dated, no hooks and talks version 15, but grounds are covered.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit too extraneous for a beginner. Azat's extensive experience blinds him from the perspective of a novice. But without a doubt this book seems to cover all the fundamentals of React, I did not complete every exercise in the book but will use them as a reference for when I am building my project.

[Vee Son · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the problem with programming books, the technology is quickly outdated.
Although the concepts can be transferred to modern react, most difficulties have been
addressed and dealt with e.g hooks.
I would suggest reading the first half of the book, then use the official documentation on the official website to complete learning the basics.