Beginning React

Developed by Facebook, React is one of the leading frameworks to build efficient web user interfaces. You use small manageable components to build large-sale, data-driven websites without page reloads. No more wasting time hunting for DOM nodes!

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to master React from a web development point of view. You'll start building React apps within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don’t want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have what it takes to develop a real-life app.

About the Reader

This book is for developers with basic familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript and object-oriented programming. No React experience needed.

About the Author

Greg Lim is a technologist and author of several programming books. Greg has many years in teaching programming in tertiary institutions and he places special emphasis on learning by doing.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Creating and Using Components
• Bindings, Props, State and Events
• Working with Components
• Conditional Rendering
• Building Forms using Formik
• Getting Data From RESTful APIs with Axios
• Routing
• C.R.U.D. with Firebase
• Introduction to Redux
• React with Redux
• Introducing React Hooks