React Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to React (2020 Edition) - Softcover

Gordon, Zac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1798752980 ISBN 13: 9781798752982

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Updated June 2020!
React Explained is a fun and enjoyable introduction to React, which is the Javascript framework of choice for WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and thousands of developers.
Key Features

Up-to-Date: Constantly updated, the material in React Explained is always current.

Clear instruction: You will follow plain English, clear visuals, and enjoyable step-by-step instructions.

Hands-on learning: You will master React by building a complete React application.

What You’ll Learn
In React Explained, readers will dig deep into how React works and will learn how to build applications with it. While the focus is on building for the frontend on the web, many of the skills you will learn will also apply to writing React on the server side, for native applications and even for Virtual Reality environments.

Table of Contents

1. The Javascript You Should Know for React
2. Helpful Developer Tools for React
3. A High Level Overview of React
4. React Elements and Components Explained
5. 5 Exercises in Writing React With Elements and Components
6. JSX Explained
7. 5 Exercises in Writing React With JSX
8. Create React App Explained
9. 5 Exercises With Create React App
10. Props in React Explained
11. 5 Exercises in Working With Props
12. State in React Explained
13. 5 Exercises in Working With State
14. The Component Lifecycle Explained
15. 5 Exercises With the Component Lifecycle
16. Context Explained
17. React Hooks Explained
18. Exercises with Hooks
19. Project Introduction
20. Step 1 - Listing Content from State
21. Step 2 - Routing and Single Content Views
22. Step 3 - Adding a Content Form
23. Step 4 - Adding Flash Messages
24. Step 5 - Updating Content
25. Step 6 - Deleting Content
26. Step 7 - Maintaining Persistent State With Local Storage
27. Step 8 - Authenticating With a Firebase Database
28. Step 9 - CRUD and Live Syncing With Firebase
29. Step 10 - Deploying the Project
30. Step 11 - Refactoring Your Code

About the Author
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, who currently focuses on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress at javascriptforwp.com. Zac has years of experience teaching at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites like Treehouse, Udemy and Frontend Masters. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers. You can also catch his free Office Yoga sessions on OfficeYoga.tv.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1798752980
• ISBN 13: 9781798752982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Hill Mikall Angela, Adair Robbie